[Zope] htmltopdf

[Shane Graber]

FWIW, there's also Prince that you can run on your server:
http://www.princexml.com  I haven't worked much with it, but the docs
say you can.

Shane

On 11/14/05, Charles Zealey <charles1 at itsolve.co.uk> wrote:
> Christoph Berendes wrote:
>
> > Asad Habib wrote:
> >
> >> Has anyone successfully used htmltopdf, a PHP script written by Jason
> >> Rust (www.rustyparts.com) to convert an HTML file to PDF, with Zope?
> >> In particular, I wanted to find out if anyone had used the python
> >> equivalent of this PHP script.
> >
> >
> >
> > We've been looking into this recently. Raw notes on various tools and
> > links below, first on HTML to pdf/ps, and then on HTML to image
> > (jpeg/png) directly, which is ultimately what we need to do.
> >
> >
> > The main thing is that many of the html to ps/pdf tools don't handle
> > CSS well, if at all. The big exception there is shown (with a live
> > demo) at http://www.tufat.com/script19.htm. It's fabulous - handles
> > pages from csszengarden quite well.
> >
> > At the moment, we're going with a simpler approach to our problem
> > (watermarks), but if we went the HTML to PDF/image route, I'd look at
> > the tufat.com script, or the approach noted at the hackdiary.com link.
> >
> >
> > HTML TO PDF/PS CONVERSION
> > "html2ps":http://user.it.uu.se/~jan/html2ps.html
> >
> > "html to pdf in php":http://www.rustyparts.com/pdf.php
> >
> > "python script for html to pdf
> > conversion":http://www.rustyparts.com/scripts/HTML_ToPDF/contrib/html2pdf.py
> >
> >
> > "html2doc":http://www.easysw.com/htmldoc , a proprietary tool
> >
> > "denature":http://denature.sourceforge.net/, html to pdf via xsl/fo in
> > Perl
> >
> > other "html to pdf":http://tinyurl.com/a8u7q tools at Freshmeat
> >
> > ____________
> > Zope cookbook has a "recipe":http://zopelabs.com/cookbook/1069611008
> > using (yum-able)
> > "recode":http://www.gnu.org/software/recode/recode.html and
> > "html2doc":http://www.htmldoc.org/ aka a "product from
> > ESP":http://www.easysw.com/htmldoc/ (under GNU license)
> >
> > * there's also the apparently very simple
> > "ZpdfDocument":http://www.zope.org/Members/gaaros/ZpdfDocument
> >
> >
> >
> > ****************
> >
> > There is a "php version of html2ps":http://www.tufat.com/script19.htm
> > which handles background images, e.g. from here
> > "http://www.netmechanic.com/news/vol5/HTMLTest_background.htm":http://www.netmechanic.com/news/vol5/HTMLTest_background.htm
> >
> >
> >
> > HTML TO IMAGE CONVERSION
> >
> > * "html2jpg":http://freshmeat.net/projects/html2jpg/ "project
> > page":http://marginalhacks.com/Hacks/html2jpg/ (requires mozilla)
> >
> > * "khtml2png":http://directory.fsf.org/webauth/misc/khtml2png.html
> > (not maintained) also used
> > "here":http://www.michaelhoover.org/work/2004/07/khtml2png.html
> >
> > * "another python-based
> > app":http://www.hackdiary.com/archives/000055.html(may be the most
> > promising)"http://www.pygtk.org/":http://www.pygtk.org/
> >
> > * "webkit2png":http://www.paulhammond.org/webkit2png/
> >
> >
> > * "Easy capture":http://www.perturb.org/display/entry/728/ for the PHP
> > environment (not HTML, just images)
> >
> > * "HTML/CSS/javascript
> > approach":http://www.electropubs.com/watermark_install.htm
> >
> >
> > * using "PHP and GD":http://www.sitepoint.com/print/watermark-images-php
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> I've been using the htmldoc route for ages now.  Bit limited in that
> it's HTML 3 but works fine for me.
>
> Charles
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