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Old 01-31-2005, 01:20 PM   #1
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Merge Of Html Files Into A Single Html (or Pdf)


Using wget ( 'i' option) you can download from Internet several pages,
which can represent the various parts of a lenghty document (manual or tutorial).

Is there in Linux a sw to merge the html pages
in a single html file (or better in a PDF file)?
 
Old 01-31-2005, 01:43 PM   #2
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well, none that ive heard of, but imho such a simple task doesn't need a specific program.
Ill demonstrate via an example:
Code:
grep -iv "</body>" downloads/html/site/page1.html | grep -iv "</html>" | grep -iv "</HTML>" | grep -iv "</BODY>" > downloads/html/site/all.html
grep -iv "</body>" downloads/html/site/page2.html | grep -iv "</html>" | grep -iv "</HTML>" | grep -iv "</BODY>" >> downloads/html/site/all.html
grep -iv "</body>" downloads/html/site/page3.html | grep -iv "</html>" | grep -iv "</HTML>" | grep -iv "</BODY>" >> downloads/html/site/all.html
#..repeat as long as neccessary..
echo "</body></html>" >> downloads/html/site/all.html
If the code is nicely formed (aka has the ending tags </html> and </body> on seperate / a seperate line(s)) This will just grab them out and merge into a single html which can be converted to whatever you want..

The result of the site merge wont be pretty, and can break the code, but thats what you get when automating this kinda stuff anyways..

Thr above code would still need to be modified to take out the start tags of the new files also, but you hopefully get my point and can modify it yourself.. Thats the way to learn anyways.. (:

Last edited by Artanicus; 01-31-2005 at 01:56 PM.
 
Old 02-10-2005, 06:46 PM   #3
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Thank you for your replay. I have followed what you suggest (but in a more drastic way):
I simply merged the html files as they were, without beeing warried of having, for example 100 <html> tags.
For my purposes, that is toprint the manual or tutorial, it worked perfectly.

The only problem is to get the correct list of the html files as defined by the Table of Content, and to merge them in that order.
But with a little script...
 
Old 05-30-2007, 01:37 PM   #4
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merge HTML's to PDF

Seee: htmlDoc.

it is open source.
http://www.htmldoc.org/
(A $$ version adds a GUI)
 
Old 01-03-2011, 06:50 AM   #5
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You can use this HTML to PDF converter to convert multiple HTML documents to same PDF. There is also a sample for this on the website.
 
Old 06-20-2011, 08:02 AM   #6
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Post Script!

I know, this is an old post, but i just wrote a bash script to get this done, here it is.
You will have to chmod +x it, to run it.
Code:
#!/bin/bash
echo "Enter directory path pages:";
read html_path;
echo "Enter complete filename of the starting page:"
read start_page;
ls $html_path > "list.txt";
grep -iv "</body>" "$html_path/$start_page" | grep -iv "</html>" > "$html_path/all_merged.html";
for i in $(< list.txt)
do
	grep -iv "<body>" "$html_path/$i" | grep -iv "<html>" | grep -iv "</body>" | grep -iv "</html>" >> "$html_path/all_merged.html"
done
echo "</body></html>" >> "$html_path/all_merged.html"
echo "Merged file ---> $html_path/all_merged.html"
unset html_path;
unset start_page;
unset i;

PS: i know one shouldn't parse ls output, but for simplicity's sake i chose to ignore that.
 
Old 06-20-2011, 07:28 PM   #7
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FYI, any var created inside a SHELL is invisible to the parent shell and they get destroyed when the shell exits, so there's no need to unset them all at the end.
 
Old 05-10-2018, 12:53 AM   #8
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Merge HTMLto PDF files can be done

I would need to convert HTML to PDF first and then merge them together. To do the conversion, this one could help: (URL removed)HTML to PDF converter for .NET[/URL]. That tool can also merge PDF files. Merging HTML files will need to modify the HTML structure.

This (URL removed) componentpro pdf one[/url] can also help.

Last edited by jefro; 05-10-2018 at 02:50 PM.
 
Old 05-10-2018, 06:58 AM   #9
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OSCARLILAM!

Before posting it is a good idea to look at the dates on the post so you don't end up a 'necro poster'. This thread originated over 13 years ago and the last post was almost 7 years ago. I doubt the original poster is looking anymore and I'm sure things have changed in the intervening years and more is possible, the world moves on.
 
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