1html2ps(1) General Commands Manual html2ps(1)
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6 html2ps - convert HTML to PostScript
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9 html2ps [ -2cdDFghHLnORtTuUv ] [ -b URL ] [ -C string ] [ -e encoding ]
10 [ -f file[:file[:...]] ] [ -i num ] [ -k file ] [ -l lang ] [ -m num ]
11 [ -M num ] [ -N num ] [ -o file ] [ -r path ] [ -s num ] [ -S string ]
12 [ -W string ] [ -x num ] [ URL|file ]
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15 The program html2ps converts HTML to PostScript. The HTML code can be
16 retrieved from one or more URL:s or local files, specified as parame‐
17 ters on the command line. If no parameter is given, html2ps reads from
18 standard input.
19 Note: To avoid unnecessary network traffic, one can rebuild an already
21 generated PostScript file with new options. This is done by running
22 html2ps with the new options, and with the old PostScript file as input
23 (not applicable for all options).
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26 All options have a short (case sensitive), and a long (case insensi‐
27 tive) form.
28 -2 --twoup
30 Two column (2-up) output. The default is one column per page.
31 -b URL --base URL
33 Use URL as a base to expand relative references for in-line
34 images. This is useful if you have downloaded a document to a
35 local file. The URL should then be the URL of the original doc‐
36 ument.
37 -c --check
39 Check the syntax of the HTML file (using an external syntax
40 checker). The default is to not make a syntax check.
41 -C string --toc string
43 Generate a table of contents (ToC). The value should be a string
44 consisting of one of the letters 'f', 'h', or 't', optionally
45 combined with the letter 'b':
46 b The ToC will be printed first. This requires that Ghost‐
48 script is installed.
49 f The ToC will be generated from the links in the converted
50 document.
51 h The ToC will be generated from headings and titles in the
52 converted documents. Note that if the document author for
53 some strange reason has chosen to use some other means to
54 represent the headings than the HTML elements H1,...,H6,
55 you are out of luck!
56 t The ToC will be generated from links having the attribute
57 rev=TOC in the converted document.
58 -d --debug
60 Generate debugging information. You should always use this
61 option when reporting problems with html2ps.
62 -D --dsc --DSC
64 Generate DSC compliant PostScript. This requires Ghostscript and
65 can take quite some time to do. Note that a PostScript file gen‐
66 erated with this option cannot be used as input to html2ps for
67 reformatting later.
68 -e encoding --encoding encoding
70 The document encoding. Currently recognized values are
71 ISO-8859-1, EUC-JP, SHIFT-JIS, and ISO-2022-JP (other EUC-xx
72 encodings may also work). The default is ISO-8859-1.
73 -f file[:file[:...]] --rcfile file[:file[:...]]
75 A colon separated list of configuration file names to use
76 instead of the default personal configuration file
77 $HOME/.html2psrc. Definitions made in one file override defini‐
78 tions in previous files (the last file in the list has highest
79 precedence). An empty file name (as in ':file', 'file1::file3',
80 or 'file:') will expand to the default personal file. The envi‐
81 ronment variable HTML2PSPATH is used to specify the directories
82 where to search for these files. (Note: this is only supposed to
83 be used on the command line, not in a configuration file.)
84 -F --frame
86 Draw a frame around the text on each page. The default is to not
87 draw a frame.
88 -g --grayscale
90 Convert colour images to grayscale images. Note that the Post‐
91 Script file will be smaller when the images are converted to
92 grayscale. The default is to generate colour images.
93 -h --help
95 Show usage information.
96 -H --hyphenate
98 Hyphenate the text. This requires TeX hyphenation pattern files.
99 -i num --scaleimage num
101 Scale in-line images with a factor num The default is 1.
102 -k file --cookie file
104 Enable cookie support, using a netscape formatted cookie file
105 (requires libwww-perl).
106 -l lang --language lang
108 Specifies the language of the document (overrides an eventual
109 LANG attribute of the BODY element). The language should be
110 given according to RFC1766 (ftp://ftp.nordu.net/rfc/rfc1766.txt)
111 and ISO 639 (http://www.w3.org/WAI/ER/IG/ert/iso639.htm).
112 -L --landscape
114 Generate code for printing in landscape mode. The default is
115 portrait mode.
116 -m num --scalemath num
118 Scale mathematical formulas with a factor num The default is 1.
119 -M num --mainchapter num
121 Specifies the start number for automatic numbering of headings
122 (by setting the seq-number parameter), the default is 1.
123 -n --number
125 Insert page numbers. The default is to not number the pages.
126 -N num --startno num
128 Specifies the starting page number, the default is 1.
129 -o file --output file
131 Write the PostScript code to file. The default is to write to
132 standard output.
133 -O --original
135 Use PostScript original images if they exist. For example, if a
136 document contains an image figure.gif, and an encapsulated Post‐
137 Script file named figure.ps exists in the same directory, that
138 file will be use instead. This only work for documents read as
139 local files. Note: if the PostScript file is large or contains
140 bitmap images, this must be combined with the -D option. In HTML
141 4.0 this can be achieved in a much better way with:
142 <OBJECT data="figure.ps" type="application/postscript">
144 <OBJECT data="figure.gif" type="image/gif">
145 <PRE>[Maybe some ASCII art for text browsers]</PRE>
146 </OBJECT>
147 </OBJECT>
148 -r path --rootdir path
150 When a document is read from a local file, this value specifies
151 a base directory for resolving relative links starting with "/".
152 Typically, this should be the directory where your web server's
153 home page resides.
154 -R --xref
156 Insert cross references at every link to within the set of con‐
157 verted documents.
158 -s num --scaledoc num
160 Scale the entire document with a factor num The default is 1.
161 -S string --style string
163 This option complements/overrides definitions made in the con‐
164 figuration files. The string must follow the configuration file
165 syntax. (Note: this is only supposed to be used on the command
166 line, not in a configuration file.)
167 -t --titlepage
169 Generate a title page. The default is to not generate one.
170 -T --text
172 Text mode, ignore images. The default is to include the images.
173 -u --underline
175 Underline text that constitutes a hypertext link. The default is
176 to not underline.
177 -U --colour
179 Produce colour output for text and background, when specified.
180 The default is black text on white background (mnemonic: coloUr
181 ;-).
182 -v --version
184 Print information about the current version of html2ps.
185 -W string --web string
187 Process a web of documents by recursively retrieve and convert
188 documents that are referenced with hyperlinks. When dealing with
189 remote documents it will of course be necessary to impose
190 restrictions, to avoid downloading the entire web... The value
191 should be a string consisting of one of the letters 'a', 'b',
192 'l', 'r', or 's', optionally combined with a combination of the
193 letters 'p', 'L', and a positive integer:
194 a Follow all links.
196 b Follow only links to within the same directory, or below,
197 as the start document.
198 l Follow only links specified with "<LINK rel=NEXT>" in the
199 document.
200 p Prompt for each remote document. This mode will automati‐
201 cally be entered after the first 50 documents.
202 r Follow only relative links.
203 s Follow only links to within the same server as the start
204 document.
205 L With this option, the order in which the documents are
206 processed will be: first all top level documents, then
207 the documents linked to from these etc. For example, if
208 the document A has links to B and C, and B has a link to
209 D, the order will be A-B-C-D. By default, each document
210 will be followed by the first document it links to etc;
211 so the default order for the example is A-B-D-C.
212 # A positive integer giving the number of recursive levels.
213 The default is 4 (when the option is present).
214 -x num --duplex num
216 Generate postscript code for single or double sided printing.
217 No default, valid values are:
218 0 Single sided.
220 1 Double sided.
221 2 Double sided, opposite page reversed (tumble mode).
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224 (This is incomplete.)
225 The CELLSPACING attribute of the TABLE element is not implemented as
227 described in the specification; instead the value of the CELLPADDING
228 attribute is increased by half the value of CELLSPACING.
229 Rendering HTML tables well is a non-trivial task. For "real" tables,
231 that is representation of tabular data, html2ps usually generates rea‐
232 sonably good output. When tables are used for layout purposes, the
233 result varies from good to useless. This is because a table cell is
234 never broken across pages. So if a table contains a cell with a lot of
235 content, the entire table may have to be scaled down in size in order
236 to make this cell fit on a single page. Sometimes this may even result
237 in unreadable output.
238 Page breaks are occasionally done in bad places: for example directly
240 after a (long) heading, and before the last line in a paragraph.
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243 HTML2PSPATH
244 This variable specifies the directories to search for configura‐
245 tion files. It should be a colon separated list of directory
246 names. Use a dot '.' to denote the current directory. An empty
247 directory name (as in ':dir', 'dir1::dir3', or 'dir:') will
248 expand to the directory where the global configuration file is.
249 The default value is '.:', that is: search the current directory
250 first, and then the global one.
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254 $HOME/.html2psrc
255 User configuration file, see html2psrc(5).
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258 html2psrc(5), perl(1), setlocale(3), strftime(3), weblint(1)
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261 This manpage describes html2ps version 1.0 beta5.
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264 http://user.it.uu.se/~jan/html2ps.html
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267 Jan Karrman (jan@it.uu.se)
2684th Berkeley Distribution 10 Dec 2005 html2ps(1)