html2ps multiple files

bhar0761 · 08-14-2005, 11:28 PM

I would like convert multiple html files to ps. Does anyone know how to do this?
The reason why is because i have a script that watches a folder and when something is in that folder i would like to print it. Since i can't print html files using lp or lpr i have to convert them first to ps and then print them. I will not now the name of the files that are in the folder at any given time.

mjrich · 08-15-2005, 12:21 AM

Have you tried html2ps...? http://user.it.uu.se/~jan/html2ps.html

It does exactly what you think it should

Code:

#!/bin/bash
for f in *.html; do
    html2ps $f > $f.ps
done

Cheers,

mj

born4linux · 08-15-2005, 12:31 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by mjrich

#!/bin/bash
for f in *.html; do
html2ps $f > $f.ps
done[/code]
Cheers,
mj

or:

#!/bin/bash
for i in $(ls -1 *.html | cut -d"." -f1); do
if [ -f $i.ps ]; then
echo "$i.ps exists! skipping..."
continue
else
html2ps $i > $i.ps"
fi
done

which will check if the target output already exisits, skip it and then process the
next html file (if html2ps has this facility, ignore my post.

)

hth.

fellipe · 11-08-2009, 12:01 PM

Hi!
I found this information very usefull, but it did't work for me.
The script you post only converted a few files, 65 of 227. It seems there is a problem with the files with spaces.
I also tried doing a nautilus script which didn't work too:

Code:

#!/usr/bin/env python
# -*- coding: latin-1 -*-

import sys, os

sys.path.insert(0, os.path.join(os.path.abspath(os.path.dirname(sys.argv[0])),".."))
import Process

if Process.verifyCommands("html2ps")==False:
	sys.exit()

Process.ProcessFiles(
	"html2ps $FILE$ > $NAME$.ps", # comando a ejecutar
	"", # tipo de archivos
	"") # mensaje final

Well, I need your help people, I didn't find a solution after hours. I have over 1000 html to convert, so I expect to have the script to do so.

Thank you!