I ripped a lot of xhtml files from a crappy ebook reader online, how do combine these into a pdf?

  • Irelephant@lemm.eeOP
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    1 day ago

    I made the script to rip them in bash. I know python, lua, js, bash and powershell, anything using these works.

    • Daniel Quinn@lemmy.ca
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      1 day ago

      I’ve used pdfkit to considerable success. It has a few system-level dependencies, but the instructions are pretty straightforward:

      # apt-get install wkhtmltopdf
      $ pip install pdfkit
      
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      Surely you can figure out how to use existing libraries for this task, or is there something you’re stuck on?

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        23 hours ago

        Can’t really find many good ones. Google isn’t returning much, just pdfs about python libraries and the odd abandoned github repo

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      In a production web app I use Gotenberg. It’s definitely overkill for the task at hand, but if you find yourself doing this often I would highly recommend it. It’s dead easy to convert HTML (and I imagine XHTML) to PDF.