"Tom Cameron" <tom@cameron.to> writes:
I have a need to create PDF files from a Zope application. I have been reading this thread on PDFs. I have no idea how to start creating pdf files. I have taken a look at reportlab and it looks all a bit too complex for what I want.
I just what to convert an HTML doc to a PDF doc. Sounds simple enough.
Anyway, could anybody give me some hints as to where I should start. A couple of URLS or how to links.
There is a really simple solution, at least for the Unix world: html2ps file.html | ps2pdf Using: http://www.tdb.uu.se/~jan/html2ps.html and http://stat.tamu.edu/doc/gs/Ps2pdf.htm To quote the html2ps web page, this will give you: * Many possibilities to control the appearance. * Support for processing multiple documents, also automatically by recursively following links. * A table of contents can be generated, either from the links in a document, or automatically from document headings. * Configurable page headers/footers, that for example can contain document title, URL, page number, current heading, and date. * When converting the PostScript document to PDF - using some other program such as version 5.0 or later of Aladdin Ghostscript, or Adobe Acrobat Distiller - the original hyperlinks in the HTML documents will be retained in the PDF document. * Automatic hyphenation and text justification can be selected. It can handle images and pretty convoluted tables. --- Alastair