Ubuntu Manpage: html2ps - convert HTML to PostScript

NAME

       html2ps - convert HTML to PostScript

SYNOPSIS

       html2ps  [  -2cdDFghHLnORtTuUv  ]  [  -b  URL  ]  [  -C  string  ]  [  -e  encoding ] [ -f
       file[:file[:...]]  ] [ -i num ] [ -k file ] [ -l lang ] [ -m num ] [ -M num ] [ -N num ] [
       -o file ] [ -r path ] [ -s num ] [ -S string ] [ -W string ] [ -x num ] [ URL|file ]

DESCRIPTION

       The  program  html2ps converts HTML to PostScript. The HTML code can be retrieved from one
       or more URL:s or local files,  specified  as  parameters  on  the  command  line.   If  no
       parameter is given, html2ps reads from standard input.

       Note:  To  avoid  unnecessary  network  traffic,  one  can  rebuild  an  already generated
       PostScript file with new options. This is done by running html2ps with  the  new  options,
       and with the old PostScript file as input (not applicable for all options).

OPTIONS

All options have a short (case sensitive), and a long (case insensitive) form.

-2 --twoup
Two column (2-up) output. The default is one column per page.

-b URL --base URL
Use URL as a base to expand relative references for in-line images. This is useful
if you have downloaded a document to a local file. The URL should then be the URL
of the original document.

-c --check
Check the syntax of the HTML file (using an external syntax checker). The default
is to not make a syntax check.

-C string --toc string
Generate a table of contents (ToC). The value should be a string consisting of one
of the letters 'f', 'h', or 't', optionally combined with the letter 'b':

b The ToC will be printed first. This requires that Ghostscript is installed.
f The ToC will be generated from the links in the converted document.
h The ToC will be generated from headings and titles in the converted
documents. Note that if the document author for some strange reason has
chosen to use some other means to represent the headings than the HTML
elements H1,...,H6, you are out of luck!
t The ToC will be generated from links having the attribute rev=TOC in the
converted document.

-d --debug
Generate debugging information. You should always use this option when reporting
problems with html2ps.

-D --dsc --DSC
Generate DSC compliant PostScript. This requires Ghostscript and can take quite
some time to do. Note that a PostScript file generated with this option cannot be
used as input to html2ps for reformatting later.

-e encoding --encoding encoding
The document encoding. Currently recognized values are ISO-8859-1, EUC-JP, SHIFT-
JIS, and ISO-2022-JP (other EUC-xx encodings may also work). The default is
ISO-8859-1.

-f file[:file[:...]] --rcfile file[:file[:...]]
A colon separated list of configuration file names to use instead of the default
personal configuration file $HOME/.html2psrc. Definitions made in one file
override definitions in previous files (the last file in the list has highest
precedence). An empty file name (as in ':file', 'file1::file3', or 'file:') will
expand to the default personal file. The environment variable HTML2PSPATH is used
to specify the directories where to search for these files. (Note: this is only
supposed to be used on the command line, not in a configuration file.)

-F --frame
Draw a frame around the text on each page. The default is to not draw a frame.

-g --grayscale
Convert colour images to grayscale images. Note that the PostScript file will be
smaller when the images are converted to grayscale. The default is to generate
colour images.

-h --help
Show usage information.

-H --hyphenate
Hyphenate the text. This requires TeX hyphenation pattern files.

-i num --scaleimage num
Scale in-line images with a factor num The default is 1.

-k file --cookie file
Enable cookie support, using a netscape formatted cookie file (requires libwww-
perl).

-l lang --language lang
Specifies the language of the document (overrides an eventual LANG attribute of the
BODY element). The language should be given according to RFC1766
(ftp://ftp.nordu.net/rfc/rfc1766.txt) and ISO 639
(http://www.w3.org/WAI/ER/IG/ert/iso639.htm).

-L --landscape
Generate code for printing in landscape mode. The default is portrait mode.

-m num --scalemath num
Scale mathematical formulas with a factor num The default is 1.

-M num --mainchapter num
Specifies the start number for automatic numbering of headings (by setting the seq-
number parameter), the default is 1.

-n --number
Insert page numbers. The default is to not number the pages.

-N num --startno num
Specifies the starting page number, the default is 1.

-o file --output file
Write the PostScript code to file. The default is to write to standard output.

-O --original
Use PostScript original images if they exist. For example, if a document contains
an image figure.gif, and an encapsulated PostScript file named figure.ps exists in
the same directory, that file will be use instead. This only work for documents
read as local files. Note: if the PostScript file is large or contains bitmap
images, this must be combined with the -D option. In HTML 4.0 this can be achieved
in a much better way with:

<OBJECT data="figure.ps" type="application/postscript">
<OBJECT data="figure.gif" type="image/gif">
<PRE>[Maybe some ASCII art for text browsers]</PRE>
</OBJECT>
</OBJECT>

-r path --rootdir path
When a document is read from a local file, this value specifies a base directory
for resolving relative links starting with "/". Typically, this should be the
directory where your web server's home page resides.

-R --xref
Insert cross references at every link to within the set of converted documents.

-s num --scaledoc num
Scale the entire document with a factor num The default is 1.

-S string --style string
This option complements/overrides definitions made in the configuration files. The
string must follow the configuration file syntax. (Note: this is only supposed to
be used on the command line, not in a configuration file.)

-t --titlepage
Generate a title page. The default is to not generate one.

-T --text
Text mode, ignore images. The default is to include the images.

-u --underline
Underline text that constitutes a hypertext link. The default is to not underline.

-U --colour
Produce colour output for text and background, when specified. The default is
black text on white background (mnemonic: coloUr ;-).

-v --version
Print information about the current version of html2ps.

-W string --web string
Process a web of documents by recursively retrieve and convert documents that are
referenced with hyperlinks. When dealing with remote documents it will of course be
necessary to impose restrictions, to avoid downloading the entire web... The value
should be a string consisting of one of the letters 'a', 'b', 'l', 'r', or 's',
optionally combined with a combination of the letters 'p', 'L', and a positive
integer:

a Follow all links.
b Follow only links to within the same directory, or below, as the start
document.
l Follow only links specified with "<LINK rel=NEXT>" in the document.
p Prompt for each remote document. This mode will automatically be entered
after the first 50 documents.
r Follow only relative links.
s Follow only links to within the same server as the start document.
L With this option, the order in which the documents are processed will be:
first all top level documents, then the documents linked to from these etc.
For example, if the document A has links to B and C, and B has a link to D,
the order will be A-B-C-D. By default, each document will be followed by
the first document it links to etc; so the default order for the example is
A-B-D-C.
# A positive integer giving the number of recursive levels. The default is 4
(when the option is present).

-x num --duplex num
Generate postscript code for single or double sided printing. No default, valid
values are:

0 Single sided.
1 Double sided.
2 Double sided, opposite page reversed (tumble mode).

BUGS

       (This is incomplete.)

       The  CELLSPACING  attribute  of  the  TABLE element is not implemented as described in the
       specification; instead the value of the CELLPADDING attribute is  increased  by  half  the
       value of CELLSPACING.

       Rendering   HTML   tables  well  is  a  non-trivial  task.  For  "real"  tables,  that  is
       representation of tabular data, html2ps usually generates  reasonably  good  output.  When
       tables  are  used  for  layout  purposes,  the result varies from good to useless. This is
       because a table cell is never broken across pages. So if a table contains a  cell  with  a
       lot  of content, the entire table may have to be scaled down in size in order to make this
       cell fit on a single page. Sometimes this may even result in unreadable output.

       Page breaks are occasionally done in bad places:  for  example  directly  after  a  (long)
       heading, and before the last line in a paragraph.

ENVIRONMENT

       HTML2PSPATH
              This  variable  specifies  the  directories  to  search for configuration files. It
              should be a colon separated list of directory names. Use a dot '.'  to  denote  the
              current  directory. An empty directory name (as in ':dir', 'dir1::dir3', or 'dir:')
              will expand to the directory where the global configuration file  is.  The  default
              value  is  '.:',  that  is: search the current directory first, and then the global
              one.

FILES

       $HOME/.html2psrc
              User configuration file, see html2psrc(5).

VERSION

       This manpage describes html2ps version 1.0 beta7.

AVAILABILITY

       http://user.it.uu.se/~jan/html2ps.html

AUTHOR

       Jan Karrman (jan@it.uu.se)