html2ps

On the subject of document preparation, I was in need earlier today of a tool to format some html to print nicely. I had some success with html2ps, followed by ps2pdf.

For example, I wanted the tutorials a friend wrote on WWW basics and creating web pages printed nicely for my students at the Eastern Oregon Correctional Institute. The pages are available from the class website under Lectures > WWW:
http://cs.bluecc.edu/parker/cs120/

I ran the following commands:
$ html2ps -tL2 -Cbh review.shtml basics.shtml text.shtml graphicsListsTables.shtml links.shtml > web_pub.ps
$ ps2pdf web_pub.ps

The resulting file is available at:
http://cs.bluecc.edu/parker/cs120/Lectures/Tutor/WWW/web_pub.pdf

The html2ps users guide is very handy.