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Comment by kelvin0 | Hacker News Reader

Well, I am looking for some feedback on a project that converts XML to PDF. Give it a try: https://github.com/kelvin0/PyXML2PDF

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I am looking for a command-line utility that could do:

    webpage2pdf 'http://bit-player.org/deck.js/limits-to-growth-Harvard-2012-03-30/ltg-talk.html#Lotka-Volterra' slide.pdf

and actually work (create a sensible PDF representation of what I can see in a browser). So my feedback wouldn't be useful, as my use case is out of scope for your project: "PyXML2PDF is NOT compatible with any XHTML/HTML/CSS. It uses a small set of tags to quickly allow generation of PDFs."

Would it be sufficient to create PNGs of the web pages and extract the text of the webpage to place in the background of a PDF file (for search, screenreading)?

Not for me. Personally I'll stick to ways of making decent PDFs that don't go via HTML.

It seems that what you want is deckjs2pdf, get it from CPAN [1] or GitHub [2]

[1] http://search.cpan.org/perldoc?deckjs2pdf

[2] https://github.com/potyl/perl-App-deckjs2pdf

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