Hey All -

I really need some help. I need to find Linux server side software to convert HTML to PDF. I have tried all the free stuff and it doesn't render the HTML quite right. Anyone have any leads on a great HTML to PDF renderer? Thanks for your help!

-Matt

Try OpenOffice, its writer is doing a pretty good job at that

Ok I can do openoffice, is there a way I can generate the PDF's with a command line? Do you have any examples?

Well, I usually just print the page through my browser to a postscript file then use "ps2pdf" to convert the printed output to pdf. Works very well.

printed file from browser: "sample.ps"

ps2pdf sample.ps sample.pdf

KC

Ahh ok - I wonder if I can use ghostscript to get the PS file, then try that for the conversion!

I'll let ya know ;-)

LOok at the FOP Libraries in the XML part of apache.com ;-)

That'll do it.

Paul

any success praefex?

Hi,

Kencaz, I did as you suggested, using Fedora Core 3 I printed this web page from Firefox to test.ps, then run "$ ps2pdf test.ps test.pdf" and got a working pdf, I got all the data, however I don't have the output exactly as the original page like you get if using Adobe Acrobat on Windows.

Maybe it's related to Firefox, the print preview is not showing the web page as it looks in the screen, I have tested with other web pages (including some of mine) and the preview it's not the same as the original web page, I have also confirmed there is no additional CSS for a "print only" version. Any idea?

Regards!

Take a look at

http://www.oakworth.demon.co.uk/gymnast.htm (non-commercial; Gymnast)
http://sector7g.wurzel6.de/pdfcreator/index_en.htm (non-commercial; PDFCreator)
http://sourceforge.net/projects/pdfcreator/ (non-commercial; PDFCreator)
http://www.eprg.org/pdfcorner/text2pdf/ (non-commercial; text2pdf)
http://convert.neevia.com/ (commercial, but free 1MB; converts to PDF and others)

Sheng-Chieh

Have you tried HTMLDOC? ([url]http://www.easysw.com/htmldoc/) This software says it converts HTML files and web pages into indexed HTML, PostScript and PDF files. You can try a free demo there too. Let me know how if it worked for you.