Html2Pdf

Convert multiple html or xhtml files to pdfs using the power of Ghostscript and Wkhtmltopdf.

Installation

Mandatory Requirement

• Ghostscript
• Wkhtmltopdf

This gem is built on top of my other gems

• agile_utils gem
• code_lister gem

Dependencies

• wkhtmltopdf (Linux/OSX)
• Ghostscript (Linux/OSX)
• OSX or Linux (no Windows sorry)

Usage

gem install html2pdf

For list of usage type

html2pdf

Which should give the following options

Usage:
html2pdf export [OPTIONS]

Options:
  -b, [--base-dir=BASE_DIR]                # Base directory
                                           # Default: . (current directory)
  -n, [--inc-words=one two three]          # List of words to be included in the result
  -x, [--exc-words=one two three]          # List of words to be excluded from the result
  -i, [--ignore-case], [--no-ignore-case]  # Match case insensitively
                                           # Default: true
  -r, [--recursive], [--no-recursive]      # Search for files recursively
                                           # Default: true
  -v, [--version], [--no-version]          # Display version information

Example Usage

• Convert all xhtml and html from test/fixtures/samples directory recursively html2pdf -b test/fixtures/samples -r Before the run test/fixtures/samples/ ├── demo1_xxx.rb.xhtml ├── demo2_xxx.rb.xhtml └── sub_dir ├── demo3_xxx.rb.xhtml └── demo4_xxx.rb.xhtml After the above command is executed:

You should get the output html2pdf-output.tar.gz which contain the pdf version of the input files above. e.g.

Usage Tips

This is my personal use case

• Use vim_printer which export any source code to list of (x)html files in a single tar.gzipped file.

• Use the output from vim_printer as input to this program so that you get the pdf version of it.

• Then combine the generated pdf files using pdfs2pdf gem to produce one pdf file

Contributing

1. Fork it ( http://github.com//code_exporter/fork )
2. Create your feature branch (git checkout -b my-new-feature)
3. Commit your changes (git commit -am 'Add some feature')
4. Push to the branch (git push origin my-new-feature)
5. Create new Pull Request