Re: Postscript file generation

This is functionality that I am interested in as well.  Currently I am 
using a tool called HTMLDoc to render HTML to PostScript.  However, I 
would much rather prefer to use the gecko to render the layout of HTML, 
CSS, etc. since it is much more standards compliant.

I will personally do more research into XPCOM as well ( I am a mozilla 
API newbie).  I'll keep you in mind as I get more info and do some 
prototyping. Perhaps we can colaborate on this tool.

  -Misk

Jeff Putney wrote:

> I would like to write a command line utility that takes a URI as input 
> and renders to a postscript file.  I've not done any mozilla hacking, so 
> I am not quite sure how to go about doing this.  From what I gather, 
> I'll need to use XPCOM to setup a postscript rendering context and then 
> use some XPCOM object to load and render the URI.  In theory this should 
> be fairly straight forward.  Mozilla already has all the functionality I 
> want.  However I am not familiar with how to write a program that can 
> use XPCOM, nor which objects I will need to use outside of gfs/src/ps. I 
> have read some of the XPCOM introduction which gives info on writing 
> XPCOM objects, but not so much on writing a program that uses XPCOM 
> objects, especially information on linking and probably where shared 
> objects should be installed for dynamic loading.
> 
> Any insight whatsoever would be greatly appreciated.  I understand that 
> this may be a non-trivial task, but given that mozilla already does 
> this, it should be 'a simple matter of programming', or at least I hope 
> it will be.
> 
> --jeff
>