From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Mar 28 2:48: 0 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from ns1.sunesi.net (ns1.sunesi.net [196.15.192.194]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0BA9137B832 for ; Tue, 28 Mar 2000 02:47:56 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from nbm@sunesi.net) Received: from nbm by ns1.sunesi.net with local (Exim 3.03 #1) id 12ZtXE-0005mv-00; Tue, 28 Mar 2000 12:47:44 +0200 Date: Tue, 28 Mar 2000 12:47:44 +0200 From: Neil Blakey-Milner To: Salvo Bartolotta Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: OFF TOPIC converting html to pdf quickie Message-ID: <20000328124744.C21693@mithrandr.moria.org> References: <20000328.292700@bartequi.ottodomain.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0pre2i In-Reply-To: <20000328.292700@bartequi.ottodomain.org> Organization: Sunesi Clinical Systems X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 3.3-RELEASE i386 X-URL: http://rucus.ru.ac.za/~nbm/ Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue 2000-03-28 (00:29), Salvo Bartolotta wrote: > Dear FreeBSDers, > > I would like to convert html files into pdf files. > > Shall I learn TeX/LateX and the like ? (o my !) > Is there a quick painless way to perform the conversion ? > > Thanks in advance, > Salvo > > P.S. I have begun to read TeX documentation, anyway, ... *sigh* *sigh* Rather use Docbook with SGML/XML, and use jade and jadetex to convert them. In fact, I think with a little work, you can probably generate .pdf from .html with jade, but I won't promise anything. Take a look at the FreeBSD Documentation Project, and what we do with Docbook. Neil -- Neil Blakey-Milner nbm@rucus.ru.ac.za To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message