Re: HTML to Postscript

[Adam <adam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

>>I'm looking for a program that will convert a URL to postscript?
>>
>>I've found HTMLDOC but it doesn't include any images or other information
>>in the printout.  My desire is to have a button on the web page that
>>says "Print" and send it to the terminal nearest printer (as netscapes
>>support of printing SUCKS).
> 
>What do you mean that Netscape's printing sucks?  It just dumps postscript
>to your normal printer, perhaps it's your printer that isn't set up
>correctly?

It sucks on two points:

1.  Instead of giving me a list of printers to pick from (easily
read from /etc/printcap) it makes one enter the "print command".  
This is WAY over the head of the regular used (and I got 130+ of
them).

2.  The postscript it generates is huge and ugly.  I have Optra 
lasers with 2Mb of RAM, and not to infrequently they can't print
the page due to the size of the job.  That is ridiculous.  So
my only option there is to convert every jobs to PCL using 
ghostscript at the client, which makes the printing SLOWWWW.  Also
I'd just as soon not configure every printer at every client, not
to mention installing ghostscript which is an enourmous package. I
can convert the jobs on a nice and fast server and not have a
problem if I can get PHP to start the print job thiere

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