NAME

       HTML::FormatPS - Format HTML as PostScript

VERSION

       version 2.12

SYNOPSIS

           use HTML::TreeBuilder;
           $tree = HTML::TreeBuilder->new->parse_file("test.html");

           use HTML::FormatPS;
           $formatter = HTML::FormatPS->new(
               FontFamily => 'Helvetica',
               PaperSize  => 'Letter',
           );
           print $formatter->format($tree);

       Or, for short:

           use HTML::FormatPS;
           print HTML::FormatPS->format_file(
               "test.html",
               'FontFamily' => 'Helvetica',
               'PaperSize'  => 'Letter',
           );

DESCRIPTION

       The HTML::FormatPS is a formatter that outputs PostScript code. Formatting of HTML tables
       and forms is not implemented.

       HTML::FormatPS is built on top of HTML::Formatter and so further detail may be found in
       the documentation for HTML::Formatter.

       You might specify the following parameters when constructing the formatter object (or when
       calling format_file or format_string):

       PaperSize
           What kind of paper should we format for.  The value can be one of these: A3, A4, A5,
           B4, B5, Letter, Legal, Executive, Tabloid, Statement, Folio, 10x14, Quarto.

           The default is "A4".

       PaperWidth
           The width of the paper, in points.  Setting PaperSize also defines this value.

       PaperHeight
           The height of the paper, in points.  Setting PaperSize also defines this value.

       LeftMargin
           The left margin, in points.

       RightMargin
           The right margin, in points.

       HorizontalMargin
           Both left and right margin at the same time.  The default value is 4 cm.

       TopMargin
           The top margin, in points.

       BottomMargin
           The bottom margin, in points.

       VerticalMargin
           Both top and bottom margin at the same time.  The default value is 2 cm,

       PageNo
           This parameter determines if we should put page numbers on the pages. The default
           value is true; so you have to set this value to 0 in order to suppress page numbers.
           (The "No" in "PageNo" means number/numero!)

       FontFamily
           This parameter specifies which family of fonts to use for the formatting. Legal values
           are "Courier", "Helvetica" and "Times".  The default is "Times".

       FontScale
           This is a scaling factor for all the font sizes.  The default value is 1.

           For example, if you want everything to be almost three times as large, you could set
           this to 2.7.  If you wanted things just a bit smaller than normal, you could set it to
           .92.

       Leading
           This option (pronounced "ledding", not "leeding") controls how much is space between
           lines. This is a factor of the font size used for that line.  Default is 0.1 -- so
           between two 12-point lines, there will be 1.2 points of space.

       StartPage
           Assuming you have PageNo on, StartPage controls what the page number of the first page
           will be. By default, it is 1. So if you set this to 87, the first page would say "87"
           on it, the next "88", and so on.

       NoProlog
           If this option is set to a true value, HTML::FormatPS will make a point of not
           emitting the PostScript prolog before the document. By default, this is off, meaning
           that HTML::FormatPS will emit the prolog. This option is of interest only to advanced
           users.

       NoTrailer
           If this option is set to a true value, HTML::FormatPS will make a point of not
           emitting the PostScript trailer at the end of the document. By default, this is off,
           meaning that HTML::FormatPS will emit the bit of PostScript that ends the document.
           This option is of interest only to advanced users.

METHODS

   new
           my $formatter = FormatterClass->new(
               option1 => value1, option2 => value2, ...
           );

       This creates a new formatter object with the given options.

SEE ALSO

       HTML::Formatter

ISSUES

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

TO DO

       •   Support for some more character styles, notably including: strike-through,
           underlining, superscript, and subscript.

       •   Support for Unicode.

       •   Support for Win-1252 encoding, since that's what most people mean when they use
           characters in the range 0x80-0x9F in HTML.

       •   And, if it's ever even reasonably possible, support for tables.

       I would welcome email from people who can help me out or advise me on the above.

INSTALLATION

       See perlmodinstall for information and options on installing Perl modules.

BUGS AND LIMITATIONS

       You can make new bug reports, and view existing ones, through the web interface at
       <http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Dist/Display.html?Name=HTML-Format>.

AVAILABILITY

       The project homepage is <https://metacpan.org/release/HTML-Format>.

       The latest version of this module is available from the Comprehensive Perl Archive Network
       (CPAN). Visit <http://www.perl.com/CPAN/> to find a CPAN site near you, or see
       <https://metacpan.org/module/HTML::Format/>.

AUTHORS

       •   Nigel Metheringham <nigelm@cpan.org>

       •   Sean M Burke <sburke@cpan.org>

       •   Gisle Aas <gisle@ActiveState.com>

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

       This software is copyright (c) 2015 by Nigel Metheringham, 2002-2005 Sean M Burke,
       1999-2002 Gisle Aas.

       This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as
       the Perl 5 programming language system itself.