Feature Request for html to ps

[Helge Blischke]

chandrashekar wrote:

>> chandrashekar wrote:
>>
>> > Hi,
>> >
>> > Is der any specific filter which handles html to postscript conversion.
>> > I saw texttops recognises text/html and get printed, but the flaw here
>> > is it will print the tags along with the contents of html. Is there any
>> > specific filter which prints html file without tags printing like a
>> > normal document printing. Is the feature not supported or any
>> > development is in progress.
>> >
>> > Regards,
>> > chandrashekar
>>
>> I've just started to set up a htmltops filter on the basis of the
>> html2ps
>> script by Jan Kärrman (Uppsala Univerity, Sweden), as it supports
>> a functional subset of CSS2 style sheets (via a configuration file)
>> and has no graphic library dependencies like gtk or fltk etc.
>>
>> I think a first usable version will be available during the next week.
>>
>> Helge
>>
> 
> Dear Helge,
> 
> what ever you had referred for html2ps script it is in perl language. I
> tested this feature on Linux box it is working fine. My understanding is
> if you could provide html2ps in C binary then overhead of perl interpreter
> would be gone. Because certain non-mac machine need perl interpreter to
> execute this script. Please consider this as a feature request.
> 
> Thanks,
> chandrashekar

Sorry, pasted the wrong link. What I meant is this one:
http://www.perl.com/pub/2001/06/27/ctoperl.html

Helge