text formating?

[Kevin Buettner]

On Jun 25,  2:51pm, Mike Starke wrote:

> I am looking for a way to easily create postscript documents.
> I need the ability to have my .png's and .png's displayed properly.
> 
> I been experimenting with html2ps (perl script) to convert them from
> html, but have not had much luck in the output for the graphics and
> tables.
> 
> Does anyone have any suggestions (non-GUI)? Is latex worth learning?
> Are there conversion tools for html that I am not aware of? These
> are simple tech documents that need to be in both postscript and PDF
> format.  The ps2pdf perl script works quite well for me, but I need
> to be able to generate postscript.

The tricky thing about all of this is getting things like tables
and inline images layed out nicely.  Commercial browsers have spent
a lot of time and other resources getting this just right.  So it
seems unlikely that you're going to find a scripted solution (using
something like perl) which does a really stellar job of formatting
HTML.

You might want to take a look at Mozilla.  I have no idea if it can be
operated in non-gui mode (without modification), but the source code
is available and it seems to me that it wouldn't be too hard to modify
it to simply take a URL, format the page and save it as postscript.
Also, I think the quality of output will be quite good.

Kevin