Re: PDF fun

["John Abreau-2" <user=184@nabble.blu.org>]

 That's what I used to do before I found Cups-PDF. That also 
rendered the pages as embedded images. 


Matthew Gillen wrote: 
> John Abreau wrote: 
>   
>> One thing I'm unsatisfied with is saving web pages to PDF. 
>> The best I've found is Cups-PDF, which acts as a printer 
>> driver to create PDF files, but the individual pages come 
>> out as embedded images, not as text. I'm not sure if the 
>> problem is with Firefox, CUPS, or the Cups-PDF driver, 
>> or some combination of the parts. 
>> 
>> The band-aid workaround I currently use is to save the web 
>> page from Firefox, scp the .html file and _files directory 
>> over to a MacOSX box, and then open it with Safari on the 
>> MacOSX box and print to PDF. 
>> 
>> Has anyone found a way to save web pages to PDF that 
>> doesn't convert the pages to embedded images? 
>>     
> 
> You could always just "print to file", which under most circumstances 
> produces a postscript file, which you can then run ps2pdf on.  That usually 
> gets pretty good results.  It's at least less steps than the procedure you 
> describe (and only requires one machine). 
> 
> Matt 
>