THE FILTER HTMLTOPS

The goal of this filter is to provide a fairly simple to use means to print HTML documents (files), which includes conversion to PostScript or PDF as virual printer destinations, but nevertheless ensure the possibility to adjust the appearance (e.g. typeface and -size) and determine the HTML handling with respect to hyperlinks (recursive subdocument retrieval) and geerating tables of contents. Moreover, by default it generates Outlines if PDF is the ?nal document format.

DEPENDENCIES

The filter uses the Perl script html2ps to thge real work. Most LINUX distributions provide an installable and maintained package for this utility, including a GUI script.

For systems that do not provide such a package, we provide a tar archive, html2ps.tgz that includes all the components, including documentation and an installation script. The script html2ps contained in this archive has been borrowed from an Ubuntu based Linux distribution which has been updated for compatibility with Perl releases 5.26.x and above.

Also included is a PDF file that has been converted from the original html2ps.html document by this filter.

VERSION HSTORY

1.00 - 2017-08-04/Bl
Initial implementation, for internal use only

1.01 - 2019-09-18/Bl
Modified option handling

1.02 - 2019-09-19/Bl
Fixed landscape conflict with pstops filter

1.03 - 2019-09-24/Bl
Underlining text links (default: rectangular border in html2ps)

1.04 - 2021-02-10/Bl Implementeation of UTF-8 handling

1.05 - 2022-06-12/Bl Fix handling of accidentally generated illegal utf8-startcodes.