The Perl script html2ps converts HTML to PostScript. You must have
Perl 5 installed to be able to use html2ps.
Files included in the html2ps distribution:
html2ps - The Perl script.
html2ps.html - An HTML document describing html2ps.
html2ps.1 - A manual page describing the command.
html2psrc.5 - A manual page describing the configuration file format.
install - An installation script for Unix and Windows.
backout - A script to revert to the previous version of html2ps.
sample - A sample configuration file.
hyphen.tex - A hyphenation pattern file for English (from TeX).
contrib/xhtml2ps - A directory containing a GUI frontend for html2ps.
COPYING - GNU General Public License.
README - This file.
Brief history:
941212 0.1 - First public release - text-only documents.
950407 0.2 - Inline images.
970609 1.0b - Support for most of HTML 3.2, configuration files introduced.
970809 1.0b1 - Bug fixes. Some HTML 4.0 support, e.g. OBJECT, INS, DEL,
and ACRONYM.
000727 1.0b2 - Mostly bug fixes. A title page can be generated. The symbol
set is extended to include information from META elements.
Installation script modified for Windows support.
000815 1.0b3 - Bug fixes. Some support for Server Side Includes. Form
element contents can be rendered. Support for netscape
cookies.
050225 1.0b4 Various bug fixes.
051211 1.0b5 Bug fixes. Added -M option.
091021 1.0b6 "Security" fix. Changed behavior for SSI, to avoid having
arbitrary readable files disclosed on a web server that uses
html2ps in a web application (cgi script etc), allowing HTML
files to be uploaded for conversion. Setting up a service like
this is begging for trouble in my opinion. (Is /bin/cat also
a vulnerability, since one can use it in a web app, allowing
uploading arbitrary parameters to it?)
100507 1.0b7 Fixed a bug introduced by the previous bug fix...
Jan Kärrman
jan@it.uu.se
