1HTML::FormatPS(3)     User Contributed Perl Documentation    HTML::FormatPS(3)
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NAME

6       HTML::FormatPS - Format HTML as PostScript
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VERSION

9       version 2.16
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SYNOPSIS

12           use HTML::TreeBuilder;
13           $tree = HTML::TreeBuilder->new->parse_file("test.html");
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15           use HTML::FormatPS;
16           $formatter = HTML::FormatPS->new(
17               FontFamily => 'Helvetica',
18               PaperSize  => 'Letter',
19           );
20           print $formatter->format($tree);
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22       Or, for short:
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24           use HTML::FormatPS;
25           print HTML::FormatPS->format_file(
26               "test.html",
27               'FontFamily' => 'Helvetica',
28               'PaperSize'  => 'Letter',
29           );
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DESCRIPTION

32       The HTML::FormatPS is a formatter that outputs PostScript code.
33       Formatting of HTML tables and forms is not implemented.
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35       HTML::FormatPS is built on top of HTML::Formatter and so further detail
36       may be found in the documentation for HTML::Formatter.
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38       You might specify the following parameters when constructing the
39       formatter object (or when calling format_file or format_string):
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41       PaperSize
42           What kind of paper should we format for.  The value can be one of
43           these: A3, A4, A5, B4, B5, Letter, Legal, Executive, Tabloid,
44           Statement, Folio, 10x14, Quarto.
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46           The default is "A4".
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48       PaperWidth
49           The width of the paper, in points.  Setting PaperSize also defines
50           this value.
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52       PaperHeight
53           The height of the paper, in points.  Setting PaperSize also defines
54           this value.
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56       LeftMargin
57           The left margin, in points.
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59       RightMargin
60           The right margin, in points.
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62       HorizontalMargin
63           Both left and right margin at the same time.  The default value is
64           4 cm.
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66       TopMargin
67           The top margin, in points.
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69       BottomMargin
70           The bottom margin, in points.
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72       VerticalMargin
73           Both top and bottom margin at the same time.  The default value is
74           2 cm,
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76       PageNo
77           This parameter determines if we should put page numbers on the
78           pages. The default value is true; so you have to set this value to
79           0 in order to suppress page numbers.  (The "No" in "PageNo" means
80           number/numero!)
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82       FontFamily
83           This parameter specifies which family of fonts to use for the
84           formatting. Legal values are "Courier", "Helvetica" and "Times".
85           The default is "Times".
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87       FontScale
88           This is a scaling factor for all the font sizes.  The default value
89           is 1.
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91           For example, if you want everything to be almost three times as
92           large, you could set this to 2.7.  If you wanted things just a bit
93           smaller than normal, you could set it to .92.
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95       Leading
96           This option (pronounced "ledding", not "leeding") controls how much
97           is space between lines. This is a factor of the font size used for
98           that line.  Default is 0.1 -- so between two 12-point lines, there
99           will be 1.2 points of space.
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101       StartPage
102           Assuming you have PageNo on, StartPage controls what the page
103           number of the first page will be. By default, it is 1. So if you
104           set this to 87, the first page would say "87" on it, the next "88",
105           and so on.
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107       NoProlog
108           If this option is set to a true value, HTML::FormatPS will make a
109           point of not emitting the PostScript prolog before the document. By
110           default, this is off, meaning that HTML::FormatPS will emit the
111           prolog. This option is of interest only to advanced users.
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113       NoTrailer
114           If this option is set to a true value, HTML::FormatPS will make a
115           point of not emitting the PostScript trailer at the end of the
116           document. By default, this is off, meaning that HTML::FormatPS will
117           emit the bit of PostScript that ends the document. This option is
118           of interest only to advanced users.
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METHODS

121   new
122           my $formatter = FormatterClass->new(
123               option1 => value1, option2 => value2, ...
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126       This creates a new formatter object with the given options.
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SEE ALSO

129       HTML::Formatter
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ISSUES

132       •   Output is in ISO Latin1 format. The underlying HTML parsers tend to
133           now work in Unicode (perl native) code points. There is an
134           impedance mismatch between these, which may give issues with
135           complex characters within HTML.
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TO DO

138       •   Support for some more character styles, notably including: strike-
139           through, underlining, superscript, and subscript.
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141       •   Support for Unicode.
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143       •   Support for Win-1252 encoding, since that's what most people mean
144           when they use characters in the range 0x80-0x9F in HTML.
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146       •   And, if it's ever even reasonably possible, support for tables.
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148       I would welcome email from people who can help me out or advise me on
149       the above.
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AUTHORS

152       •   Nigel Metheringham <nigelm@cpan.org>
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154       •   Sean M Burke <sburke@cpan.org>
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156       •   Gisle Aas <gisle@ActiveState.com>
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159       This software is copyright (c) 2016 by Nigel Metheringham, 2002-2005
160       Sean M Burke, 1999-2002 Gisle Aas.
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162       This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under
163       the same terms as the Perl 5 programming language system itself.
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