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  • From: Lee Forrest <lforrestster AT gmail.com>
  • To: baslinux AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [BL] HTML to PDF/PS (was: BL3 as 'user') 15
  • Date: Sun, 21 Jan 2007 21:00:52 +0000

On Mon, Jan 22, 2007 at 03:48:13AM +0000, sindi keesan wrote:
> On Sun, 21 Jan 2007, Lee Forrest wrote:
>
> HTMLdoc:
>
> >
> > Keeping in mind that this a debian package, it looks like the xlibs are
> > needed:
> >
> > $ ldd `which htmldoc`
> > libXpm.so.4 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libXpm.so.4 (0x4001e000)
> > libfltk.so.1 => /usr/lib/libfltk.so.1 (0x4002e000)

300K

> How big is this one?

> > libXext.so.6 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libXext.so.6 (0x4007c000)
> > libX11.so.6 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libX11.so.6 (0x4008b000)
>
> > libpng.so.2 => /usr/lib/libpng.so.2 (0x40152000)
> > libz.so.1 => /usr/lib/libz.so.1 (0x4017d000)
> > libjpeg.so.62 => /usr/lib/libjpeg.so.62 (0x4018f000)
> These three are also used by ghostscript.
>
> > libnsl.so.1 => /lib/libnsl.so.1 (0x401ae000)

73K

> This one?

> > libm.so.6 => /lib/libm.so.6 (0x401c3000)
> > libc.so.6 => /lib/libc.so.6 (0x401e6000)
> > libpthread.so.0 => /lib/libpthread.so.0 (0x40319000)
>
> > libGLU.so.1 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libGLU.so.1 (0x4036a000)

492K

> > libGL.so.1 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libGL.so.1 (0x403e5000)

431K

> > libstdc++-libc6.2-2.so.3 => /usr/lib/libstdc++-libc6.2-2.so.3
> > (0x40454000)

288K

> These three?

> > libdl.so.2 => /lib/libdl.so.2 (0x4049f000)
> > /lib/ld-linux.so.2 => /lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0x40000000)
>
> > libstdc++.so.5 => /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.5 (0x404a3000)

725K

> > libgcc_s.so.1 => /lib/libgcc_s.so.1 (0x4055d000

33K

> And these two?

>
> Gs itself is at least 2MB so even with fewer libraries it might still
> require more space. But it will also print various image formats, etc.
> And work with more printers than pbmtolj and pbmtoeps.

Once you have the PDF doc, isn't that all you need to print it?

> It might be worth trying to compile htmldoc statically with some of these
> odd libraries. Would this make it smaller than a dynamic version plus the
> libraries?

I don't think you could just pick some of the libraries it needs and compile
it statically. Have to be all of them. Or at least all you needed.

It could probably be compiled statically with uclibc, but would still be
larger than any dynamic arrangement.

[delete]
> > I'm wondering whether it is necessary to convert to PDF. Don't all
> > printers
> > accept PS? (they do down at Kinko's). PS is plain text.

I'm still wondering that.

Lee

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