I tried it as well, and it looks to me like it's a cross-language
dependency problem.
The one downside to the CPAN installer (and language-specific source
repository installations in general) is that it isn't able to cross
language boundaries.
It looks like HTML::Tidy needs something called libtidy, and is freaking
out when it can't find it.
On another note though, I hadn't heard of mozilla2ps before, but I think
that almost certainly the best approach. Using a full blown rendering
engine is much more likely to produce good results.
So you add my support to the mozilla2ps -> ps2pdf approach as well,
despite the slowness.
Adam K
Sonia Hamilton wrote:
* On Tue, Nov 14, 2006 at 06:04:11PM +1100, Adam Kennedy wrote:
I just realized that my previous response didn't make it to the list.
Something like this should work for you.
http://search.cpan.org/~audreyt/PDF-FromHTML-0.20/script/html2pdf.pl
Should be just a case of...
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ cpan -i PDF::FromHTML
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ html2pdf.pl source.html > target.pdf
Thanks Adam. xulrunner + mozilla2ps gave me good results, so I used
that. A bit slow, but I scripted it and left it to chug away...
Out of interest, 'cpan -i PDF::FromHTML' failed, due to 'cpan -i
HTML::Tidy' failing, with errors below. Not sure how to fix this - any
ideas? I tried googling on the error messages, installing tidy (in case
it's a missing library). I don't use Perl much, so don't know where to
start with these sort of problems.
Errors:
...
...
cp lib/HTML/Tidy.pm blib/lib/HTML/Tidy.pm
/usr/bin/perl /usr/share/perl/5.8/ExtUtils/xsubpp -typemap
/usr/share/perl/5.8/ExtUtils/typemap Tidy.xs > Tidy.xsc && mv Tidy.xsc
Tidy.c
Please specify prototyping behavior for Tidy.xs (see perlxs manual)
cc -c -I. -I/usr/include/tidy -I/usr/local/include/tidy
-I/sw/include/tidy -D_REENTRANT -D_GNU_SOURCE -DTHREADS_HAVE_PIDS
-DDEBIAN -fno-strict-aliasing -pipe -I/usr/local/include
-D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -O2 -DVERSION=\"1.06\"
-DXS_VERSION=\"1.06\" -fPIC "-I/usr/lib/perl/5.8/CORE" Tidy.c
Tidy.xs:5:18: error: tidy.h: No such file or directory
Tidy.xs:6:20: error: buffio.h: No such file or directory
...
...
make had returned bad status, install seems impossible
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