[ale] Thinking of html rendering

[Greg Freemyer]

I'm not too concerned with the print driver side of things.  I know
how to do that.

I'm more concerned with the app that will send the rendered HTML to
the print driver.

ie. Interactively I could launch Firefox etc. and click print.  I
don't want to do that.  I need a program I can invoke from a shell
script (or C code via system()) that will take the html file name and
the print command as CLI argurments and send the rendered code to the
print driver.

Thanks
Greg

On 12/19/06, Christopher Fowler <cfowler at outpostsentinel.com> wrote:
> I did this back in 95.  That was the last time.
>
> I setup a printer in Linux that would send the PS output to gs.  Then gs
> would convert that into a GIF, JPG, whatever.  You then place that under
> SMB share and then set it up in Windows.
>
> On Tue, 2006-12-19 at 18:49 -0500, Greg Freemyer wrote:
> > All,
> >
> > The other thread about HTML rendering reminded me that I need a CLI
> > level mechanism to print (and/or convert to tiff) html files.
> >
> > ie. This will be invoked via the "system()" call and I can't have any
> > interactive requirements.
> >
> > I do care a lot about the quality of the rendering and sad as it is,
> > the closer to IE like it is the better.  ie. We do these conversions
> > for our clients and most of them want to know what a page would look
> > like from IE.
> >
> > This is going to be integrated into a Windows platform, so I would
> > need something that I can run under cygwin but that should not be a
> > problem since I can always recompile the source.
> >
> > FYI: We're currently trying to use the standard microsoft HTML
> > rendering engine but on a small (but real) percentage of the html
> > files it has a multi-minute delay to render/print a single page.  So
> > when we hit these files our rendering rate drops from 10s of thousands
> > per hour to hundreds per hour.
> >
> > Thanks
> > Greg
> >
> > Thanks
> > Greg
>
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Greg Freemyer
The Norcross Group
Forensics for the 21st Century