[Tutor] transform html to pdf

Titu Kim kimtitu@yahoo.com
Tue, 27 Nov 2001 23:32:57 -0800 (PST)


My html string is created via cgi. So i wish to create
a pdf file that can be downloaded while displaying the
the html page via browser. Calling Latex is a good
approach for me too. Any idea? Thanks.
--- Pijus Virketis <virketis@fas.harvard.edu> wrote:
> >   I am wondering how to transform a complete html
> >into downloadable pdf file? If i have a string that
> is
> >a complete html page, how can i deal with this
> >problem? I look at reportlab's examples but there
> are
> >not many of them. 
> 
> Hm, doesn't LaTeX have utilities that convert from
> HMTL to TeX and then to
> PDF rather nicely? If you have access to these
> programs, you could just
> call them from Python, using it as the "glue"
> language. I am not that
> familiar with how well Python interacts with LaTeX
> though, so this is just
> an idea rather than a fully informed piece of
> advice.:)
> 
> Pijus
>
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