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PROGRAM:

NAME

html2ps - convert HTML to PostScript

SYNOPSIS

html2ps [ -2cdDFghHLnORtTuUv ] [ -b URL ] [ -C string ] [ -e encoding ] [ -f
file[:file[:...]] ] [ -i num ] [ -k file ] [ -l lang ] [ -m num ] [ -M num ] [ -N num ] [
-o file ] [ -r path ] [ -s num ] [ -S string ] [ -W string ] [ -x num ] [ URL|file ]

DESCRIPTION

The program html2ps converts HTML to PostScript. The HTML code can be retrieved from one
or more URL:s or local files, specified as parameters on the command line. If no
parameter is given, html2ps reads from standard input.

Note: To avoid unnecessary network traffic, one can rebuild an already generated
PostScript file with new options. This is done by running html2ps with the new options,
and with the old PostScript file as input (not applicable for all options).

OPTIONS

All options have a short (case sensitive), and a long (case insensitive) form.

-2 --twoup
Two column (2-up) output. The default is one column per page.

-b URL --base URL
Use URL as a base to expand relative references for in-line images. This is useful
if you have downloaded a document to a local file. The URL should then be the URL
of the original document.

-c --check
Check the syntax of the HTML file (using an external syntax checker). The default
is to not make a syntax check.

-C string --toc string
Generate a table of contents (ToC). The value should be a string consisting of one
of the letters 'f', 'h', or 't', optionally combined with the letter 'b':

b The ToC will be printed first. This requires that Ghostscript is installed.
f The ToC will be generated from the links in the converted document.
h The ToC will be generated from headings and titles in the converted
documents. Note that if the document author for some strange reason has
chosen to use some other means to represent the headings than the HTML
elements H1,...,H6, you are out of luck!
t The ToC will be generated from links having the attribute rev=TOC in the
converted document.

-d --debug
Generate debugging information. You should always use this option when reporting
problems with html2ps.

-D --dsc --DSC
Generate DSC compliant PostScript. This requires Ghostscript and can take quite
some time to do. Note that a PostScript file generated with this option cannot be
used as input to html2ps for reformatting later.

-e encoding --encoding encoding
The document encoding. Currently recognized values are ISO-8859-1, EUC-JP, SHIFT-
JIS, and ISO-2022-JP (other EUC-xx encodings may also work). The default is
ISO-8859-1.

-f file[:file[:...]] --rcfile file[:file[:...]]
A colon separated list of configuration file names to use instead of the default
personal configuration file $HOME/.html2psrc. Definitions made in one file
override definitions in previous files (the last file in the list has highest
precedence). An empty file name (as in ':file', 'file1::file3', or 'file:') will
expand to the default personal file. The environment variable HTML2PSPATH is used
to specify the directories where to search for these files. (Note: this is only
supposed to be used on the command line, not in a configuration file.)

-F --frame
Draw a frame around the text on each page. The default is to not draw a frame.

-g --grayscale
Convert colour images to grayscale images. Note that the PostScript file will be
smaller when the images are converted to grayscale. The default is to generate
colour images.

-h --help
Show usage information.

-H --hyphenate
Hyphenate the text. This requires TeX hyphenation pattern files.

-i num --scaleimage num
Scale in-line images with a factor num The default is 1.

-k file --cookie file
Enable cookie support, using a netscape formatted cookie file (requires libwww-
perl).

-l lang --language lang
Specifies the language of the document (overrides an eventual LANG attribute of the
BODY element). The language should be given according to RFC1766
(ftp://ftp.nordu.net/rfc/rfc1766.txt) and ISO 639
(http://www.w3.org/WAI/ER/IG/ert/iso639.htm).

-L --landscape
Generate code for printing in landscape mode. The default is portrait mode.

-m num --scalemath num
Scale mathematical formulas with a factor num The default is 1.

-M num --mainchapter num
Specifies the start number for automatic numbering of headings (by setting the seq-
number parameter), the default is 1.

-n --number
Insert page numbers. The default is to not number the pages.

-N num --startno num
Specifies the starting page number, the default is 1.

-o file --output file
Write the PostScript code to file. The default is to write to standard output.

-O --original
Use PostScript original images if they exist. For example, if a document contains
an image figure.gif, and an encapsulated PostScript file named figure.ps exists in
the same directory, that file will be use instead. This only work for documents
read as local files. Note: if the PostScript file is large or contains bitmap
images, this must be combined with the -D option. In HTML 4.0 this can be achieved
in a much better way with:

<OBJECT data="figure.ps" type="application/postscript">
<OBJECT data="figure.gif" type="image/gif">
<PRE>[Maybe some ASCII art for text browsers]</PRE>
</OBJECT>
</OBJECT>

-r path --rootdir path
When a document is read from a local file, this value specifies a base directory
for resolving relative links starting with "/". Typically, this should be the
directory where your web server's home page resides.

-R --xref
Insert cross references at every link to within the set of converted documents.

-s num --scaledoc num
Scale the entire document with a factor num The default is 1.

-S string --style string
This option complements/overrides definitions made in the configuration files. The
string must follow the configuration file syntax. (Note: this is only supposed to
be used on the command line, not in a configuration file.)

-t --titlepage
Generate a title page. The default is to not generate one.

-T --text
Text mode, ignore images. The default is to include the images.

-u --underline
Underline text that constitutes a hypertext link. The default is to not underline.

-U --colour
Produce colour output for text and background, when specified. The default is
black text on white background (mnemonic: coloUr ;-).

-v --version
Print information about the current version of html2ps.

-W string --web string
Process a web of documents by recursively retrieve and convert documents that are
referenced with hyperlinks. When dealing with remote documents it will of course be
necessary to impose restrictions, to avoid downloading the entire web... The value
should be a string consisting of one of the letters 'a', 'b', 'l', 'r', or 's',
optionally combined with a combination of the letters 'p', 'L', and a positive
integer:

a Follow all links.
b Follow only links to within the same directory, or below, as the start
document.
l Follow only links specified with "<LINK rel=NEXT>" in the document.
p Prompt for each remote document. This mode will automatically be entered
after the first 50 documents.
r Follow only relative links.
s Follow only links to within the same server as the start document.
L With this option, the order in which the documents are processed will be:
first all top level documents, then the documents linked to from these etc.
For example, if the document A has links to B and C, and B has a link to D,
the order will be A-B-C-D. By default, each document will be followed by
the first document it links to etc; so the default order for the example is
A-B-D-C.
# A positive integer giving the number of recursive levels. The default is 4
(when the option is present).

-x num --duplex num
Generate postscript code for single or double sided printing. No default, valid
values are:

0 Single sided.
1 Double sided.
2 Double sided, opposite page reversed (tumble mode).

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