Re: Printing HTML

Neil Ellwood wrote:

Theo Markettos wrote:

Is there any tool that makes a decent job of printing HTML? I'm
thinking of something that can be set to print in two columns (say),
sensibly split up text between pages, decide when images need scaling
so they'll fit on the page and all sorts of other printing-related
decisions.

Browsers are usually hopeless. Firefox doesn't even provide a Print
Preview
option. Mostly they print too big or with far too much whitespace,
resulting in a simple page appearing as half a dozen sheets at least
one or
two having superfluous stuff on them. (Of course, not many sites
provide
I use Iceweasel in debian (just a rename of firefox) and if you look
under 'file' the drop down list contains 'page set up' 'print preview'
and 'print'. I don't find a problem.

Firefox seems to work well enough. But is there any way of getting a web page printed from the command line or a script? The OP's request smacks of wanting to print without user intervention.


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