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

[Damon Lynch]

Hi Richard,

I've often wondered about the usefulness of that tool for text.  Printed
documents have much more rigorous requirements than a web page, like
paragraph orphans and widows etc.  This is where a good word processor
or page layout program comes in handy  ;-)

Damon 

On Fri, 2002-06-21 at 10:08, Richard Hector wrote: 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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