Converting HTML Page to PDF?

arunvelusamy has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Hi monks,

Can we scrape the whole HTML page (including iframe, static and flash images) using LWP?

Is there any modules to convert the whole HTML page (including static and flash images) to PDF?
Regards,
Arun.

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Re: Converting HTML Page to PDF? by Ieronim (Friar) on Jul 06, 2006 at 17:38 UTC
For downloading the page including images try lwp-rget. There are some modules to convert HTML to PDF, e.g. PDF::FromHTML. CPAN is your best friend! :) But you cannot convert flash movies to PDF at all :)	[reply]
Re^2: Converting HTML Page to PDF? by leocharre (Priest) on Jul 01, 2009 at 19:00 UTC
This module has a horrible time installing and compiling. 2.6.11-1.1369_FC4smp #1 SMP Thu Jun 2 23:08:39 EDT 2005 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux Maybe it's the deps, although I appear to have them all.	[reply]
Re: Converting HTML Page to PDF? by planetscape (Chancellor) on Jul 06, 2006 at 19:36 UTC
I heartily recommend WWW::Mechanize for web scraping. HTTP::Recorder or WWW::Mechanize::Shell can do much to make your life easier. w3mir works well for mirroring entire pages/sites. In addition to searching CPAN for PDF modules, I can also recommend PrimoPDF. HTH, planetscape	[reply]
Re: Converting HTML Page to PDF? by reneeb (Chaplain) on Jul 07, 2006 at 07:18 UTC
There is HTML::HTMLDoc on CPAN.	[reply]


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