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html2ps(1) General Commands Manual html2ps(1) NAME html2ps - convert HTML to PostScript SYNOPSIS html2ps [ -2cdDFghHLnORtTuUv ] [ -b URL ] [ -C string ] [ -e encoding ] [ -f file[:file[:...]] ] [ -i num ] [ -k file ] [ -l lang ] [ -m num ] [ -M num ] [ -N num ] [ -o file ] [ -r path ] [ -s num ] [ -S string ] [ -W string ] [ -x num ] [ URL|file ] DESCRIPTION The program html2ps converts HTML to PostScript. The HTML code can be re- trieved from one or more URL:s or local files, specified as parameters on the command line. If no parameter is given, html2ps reads from standard input. Note: To avoid unnecessary network traffic, one can rebuild an already gen- erated PostScript file with new options. This is done by running html2ps with the new options, and with the old PostScript file as input (not ap- plicable for all options). OPTIONS All options have a short (case sensitive), and a long (case insensitive) form. -2 --twoup Two column (2-up) output. The default is one column per page. -b URL --base URL Use URL as a base to expand relative references for in-line images. This is useful if you have downloaded a document to a local file. The URL should then be the URL of the original document. -c --check Check the syntax of the HTML file (using an external syntax checker). The default is to not make a syntax check. -C string --toc string Generate a table of contents (ToC). The value should be a string consisting of one of the letters 'f', 'h', or 't', optionally com- bined with the letter 'b': b The ToC will be printed first. This requires that Ghostscript is installed. f The ToC will be generated from the links in the converted document. h The ToC will be generated from headings and titles in the converted documents. Note that if the document author for some strange reason has chosen to use some other means to represent the headings than the HTML elements H1,...,H6, you are out of luck! t The ToC will be generated from links having the attribute rev=TOC in the converted document. -d --debug Generate debugging information. You should always use this option when reporting problems with html2ps. -D --DSC Generate DSC compliant PostScript. This requires Ghostscript and can take quite some time to do. Note that a PostScript file generated with this option cannot be used as input to html2ps for reformatting later. -e encoding --encoding encoding The document encoding. Currently recognized values are ISO-8859-1, EUC-JP, SHIFT-JIS, and ISO-2022-JP (other EUC-xx encodings may also work). The default is ISO-8859-1. -f file[:file[:...]] --rcfile file[:file[:...]] A colon separated list of configuration file names to use instead of the default personal configuration file $HOME/.html2psrc. Defini- tions made in one file override definitions in previous files (the last file in the list has highest precedence). An empty file name (as in ':file', 'file1::file3', or 'file:') will expand to the de- fault personal file. The environment variable HTML2PSPATH is used to specify the directories where to search for these files. (Note: this is only supposed to be used on the command line, not in a configura- tion file.) -F --frame Draw a frame around the text on each page. The default is to not draw a frame. -g --grayscale Convert colour images to grayscale images. Note that the PostScript file will be smaller when the images are converted to grayscale. The default is to generate colour images. -h --help Show usage information. -H --hyphenate Hyphenate the text. This requires TeX hyphenation pattern files. -i num --scaleimage num Scale in-line images with a factor num The default is 1. -k file --cookie file Enable cookie support, using a netscape formatted cookie file (re- quires libwww-perl). -l lang --language lang Specifies the language of the document (overrides an eventual LANG attribute of the BODY element). The language should be given ac- cording to RFC1766 (ftp://ftp.nordu.net/rfc/rfc1766.txt) and ISO 639 (http://www.w3.org/WAI/ER/IG/ert/iso639.htm). -L --landscape Generate code for printing in landscape mode. The default is por- trait mode. -m num --scalemath num Scale mathematical formulas with a factor num The default is 1. -M num --mainchapter num Specifies the start number for automatic numbering of headings (by setting the seq-number parameter), the default is 1. -n --number Insert page numbers. The default is to not number the pages. -N num --startno num Specifies the starting page number, the default is 1. -o file --output file Write the PostScript code to file. The default is to write to stan- dard output. -O --original Use PostScript original images if they exist. For example, if a doc- ument contains an image figure.gif, and an encapsulated PostScript file named figure.ps exists in the same directory, that file will be use instead. This only work for documents read as local files. Note: if the PostScript file is large or contains bitmap images, this must be combined with the -D option. In HTML 4.0 this can be achieved in a much better way with: <OBJECT data="figure.ps" type="application/postscript"> <OBJECT data="figure.gif" type="image/gif"> <PRE>[Maybe some ASCII art for text browsers]</PRE> </OBJECT> </OBJECT> -r path --rootdir path When a document is read from a local file, this value specifies a base directory for resolving relative links starting with "/". Typ- ically, this should be the directory where your web server's home page resides. -R --xref Insert cross references at every link to within the set of converted documents. -s num --scaledoc num Scale the entire document with a factor num The default is 1. -S string --style string This option complements/overrides definitions made in the configura- tion files. The string must follow the configuration file syntax. (Note: this is only supposed to be used on the command line, not in a configuration file.) -t --titlepage Generate a title page. The default is to not generate one. -T --text Text mode, ignore images. The default is to include the images. -u --underline Underline text that constitutes a hypertext link. The default is to not underline. -U --colour Produce colour output for text and background, when specified. The default is black text on white background (mnemonic: coloUr ;-). -v --version Print information about the current version of html2ps. -W string --web string Process a web of documents by recursively retrieve and convert docu- ments that are referenced with hyperlinks. When dealing with remote documents it will of course be necessary to impose restrictions, to avoid downloading the entire web... The value should be a string consisting of one of the letters 'a', 'b', 'l', 'r', or 's', option- ally combined with a combination of the letters 'p', 'L', and a pos- itive integer: a Follow all links. b Follow only links to within the same directory, or below, as the start document. l Follow only links specified with "<LINK rel=NEXT>" in the document. p Prompt for each remote document. This mode will automatically be entered after the first 50 documents. r Follow only relative links. s Follow only links to within the same server as the start doc- ument. L With this option, the order in which the documents are processed will be: first all top level documents, then the documents linked to from these etc. For example, if the docu- ment A has links to B and C, and B has a link to D, the order will be A-B-C-D. By default, each document will be followed by the first document it links to etc; so the default order for the example is A-B-D-C. # A positive integer giving the number of recursive levels. The default is 4 (when the option is present). -x num --duplex num Generate postscript code for single or double sided printing. No default, valid values are: 0 Single sided. 1 Double sided. 2 Double sided, opposite page reversed (tumble mode). BUGS (This is incomplete.) The CELLSPACING attribute of the TABLE element is not implemented as de- scribed in the specification; instead the value of the CELLPADDING at- tribute is increased by half the value of CELLSPACING. Rendering HTML tables well is a non-trivial task. For "real" tables, that is representation of tabular data, html2ps usually generates reasonably good output. When tables are used for layout purposes, the result varies from good to useless. This is because a table cell is never broken across pages. So if a table contains a cell with a lot of content, the entire ta- ble may have to be scaled down in size in order to make this cell fit on a single page. Sometimes this may even result in unreadable output. Page breaks are occasionally done in bad places: for example directly after a (long) heading, and before the last line in a paragraph. ENVIRONMENT HTML2PSPATH This variable specifies the directories to search for configuration files. It should be a colon separated list of directory names. Use a dot '.' to denote the current directory. An empty directory name (as in ':dir', 'dir1::dir3', or 'dir:') will expand to the directory where the global configuration file is. The default value is '.:', that is: search the current directory first, and then the global one. FILES $HOME/.html2psrc User configuration file, see html2psrc(5). SEE ALSO html2psrc(5), perl(1), setlocale(3), strftime(3), weblint++(1) VERSION This manpage describes html2ps version 1.0 beta7. AVAILABILITY http://user.it.uu.se/~jan/html2ps.html AUTHOR Jan Karrman (jan@it.uu.se) 4th Berkeley Distribution 7 May 2010 html2ps(1)
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