[wellylug] How to I strip HTML tags via the cmd line?

Richard Hector rhector at actrix.gen.nz
Fri Jun 21 10:08:05 NZST 2002


On Fri, 2002-06-21 at 09:27, Damon Lynch wrote:
> Thanks that's cool.  I did that and it worked just fine.
> 
> Actually I have wanted it to be able to take a large web page full of
> text, stick it in OpenOffice, format it nicely, and produce a PDF for
> offline reading and distribution.   OpenOffice doesn't open XHTML in the
> same way it does HTML.

Ah. In that case, there's a tool calles html2ps available here:

http://www.tdb.uu.se/~jan/html2ps.html

You could then use ps2pdf to turn the Postscript into PDF.

Richard



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