On Wed, 26 Sep 2012, [email protected] wrote: > On Wed, Sep 26, 2012 at 06:16:31PM -0400, Champoux wrote: > > On Wed, Sep 26, 2012 at 03:43:26PM -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > > i have a text file containing over 100 URLs (one per line), and i > > > want to produce that many PDF files of those URL pages, with output > > > filenames simply 1.pdf, 2.pdf and so on -- that numbering is > > > required. > > > > $ perl -MLWP::Simple=mirror -ne'next if /^SKIP/; \ > > mirror( $_ => $..".pdf" ); print "saving $..pdf\n"' < list > > > > ? > > Wait, I might have misunderstood. Are the original links > not pdfs, but you want to convert them on the fly?
exactly. all the URLs are simply htm/html/shtml, and i want to: 1) grab them 2) convert to PDF 3) save to sequentially numbered files i'm effectively trying to do what you can do in the chromium browser with "Print > File", saving as pdf. i just don't want to do it manually over 100 times. > If so, yeah, it's going to be a mite more complicated. I did > something similar in the past, if it can help: > http://babyl.dyndns.org/techblog/entry/contact-sheet ok, i'll check it out, thanks. rday -- ======================================================================== Robert P. J. Day Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA http://crashcourse.ca Twitter: http://twitter.com/rpjday LinkedIn: http://ca.linkedin.com/in/rpjday ======================================================================== _______________________________________________ Linux mailing list [email protected] http://oclug.on.ca/mailman/listinfo/linux
