I've not seen the URL to the page that you are trying to capture come through, it might help tailor a solution to your task... On 8/28/06, der.hans wrote: > Am 28. Aug, 2006 schwätzte Shawn Badger so: > > > That doesn't look like it will work for me. Based on you suggestion > > about Firefox extensions, causes me to wonder if there is an extension > > for Firefox that will allow you to script it from the command line. I > > know you can specify how big and which page to open to from the command > > line, but it would work for me if I could have it open a page and then > > save the complete page to a directory. Then I could us a different > > unknown app to convert that information to a pdf or something. > > Description: XML-to-any converter > > xmlto is a front-end to an XSL toolchain. It chooses an appropriate > stylesheet for the conversion you want and applies it using an external > XSLT processor (currently, only xsltproc is supported). It also performs > any necessary post-processing. > . > It supports converting from DocBook XML to DVI, XSL-FO, HTML (multiple > pages), HTML (one page), man page, PDF, PostScript, and plain text. It > supports converting from XSL-FO to DVI, PDF and PostScript. > > See the homepage for more information: http://cyberelk.net/tim/xmlto/ > > For the suggestion from slide there is ps2pdf. It's in the gs-common > package on debian. > > I'm pretty certain there's an extension to save a page via a client-run > cron of some sort. > > Maybe ScrapBook or another extension has a way to call it from the command > line. > > https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/427/ > > konqueror might have a way to save pages from the command line. Poke > around with dcop or kdcop :). > > ciao, > > der.hans > > > > > > > On Mon, 2006-08-28 at 14:51 -0700, der.hans wrote: > >> Am 28. Aug, 2006 schwätzte alex@crackpot.org so: > >> > >>> Quoting Shawn Badger : > >>> > >>>> Does anyone know of a CLI app that can capture a web page to a jpg or > >>>> better a pdf? I need to capture a dynamic page on daily basis and e-mail > >>>> the captured image to various people. I have tried using wget, but it > >>>> saves some weird results. I suspect that is because the page I am > >>>> polling is generated with PHP. > >>>> > >>>> Any ideas would be appreciated. > >>> > >>> wget downloads/saves the source text of the page, so if you want a jpg or > >>> pdf, I don't think that will help you. > >>> > >>> This app is web-based, not CLI, but it might be worth looking at : > >>> http://bluga.net/webthumb/index.php > >> > >> Josh is here in town ( one of the people behind AzPHP ), so maybe you can > >> convince him to let you use it on your company's intranet. > >> > >> Also, there are some extensions for Firefox that will run scripts. Maybe > >> you could setup Firefox to pull up the page and save it to PDF. A script > >> run from cron could then poll for new files to mail out. > >> > >> PrefBar is the extension I can think of off the top of my head. Not > >> available from the Firefox website, but still worth looking into. > >> > >> Is there a command line option to Firefox to save a URL to PDF? > >> > >> ciao, > >> > >> der.hans > >> -- > >> # https://www.LuftHans.com/ http://www.CiscoLearning.org/ > >> # Join the League of Professional System Administrators! https://LOPSA.org/ > >> # C'est la Net - der.hans > >> --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change you mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > > > > --------------------------------------------------- > > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change you mail settings: > > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > > > > -- > # https://www.LuftHans.com/ http://www.CiscoLearning.org/ > # Join the League of Professional System Administrators! https://LOPSA.org/ > # wouldn't that be "shopping is hard, let's do math"? > > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change you mail settings: > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > > --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change you mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss