html2ps: A plug

Joel Hammer Joel
Mon May 17 11:37:40 PDT 2004


Just a plug for html2ps, if you haven't used it yet.

I have been using enscript to generate postscript files from text files.
I am very happy with it, but, there are some formatting issues I haven't
had much success with.

And, of course, since this is a windows world, and windows doesn't do
postscript very well, I always have to generate pdf files from these
postscript files to share with my friend and coworkers.  

html2ps works with HTML files, of course. It allows allows the solution
of some formating problems which I couldn't solve with enscript, like
those pesky hanging indents.  Best of all, when you run ps2pdf on these
postscript files, links and bookmarks (headers) are preserved, so you
can generate fancy, bookmarked pdf documents and navigate the documents with
links. Wow.... Imagine how impressed they'll be. Bonuses will be sure to
come fast and furious, and we all know how girls love guys who can
really format a document. 

Anyway, the results are worth the effort to learn html2ps, IMHO. 

http://www.tdb.uu.se/~jan/html2ps.html

Joel





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