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[sindi keesan <keesan AT sdf.lonestar.org>]

On Mon, 22 Jan 2007 3aoo-cvfd AT dea.spamcon.org wrote:

> sindi keesan wrote:
> > Opera will save as HTML or plain text, but not as ps.
>
> That's not quite correct.  Opera is able to output ps
> to a file.

Please explain how.  It was not listed as a format for 'save as'.
I see html, html with images, text and 'all files'.  Opera 8.52.

There is a 'Print' option.  Does that export ps, and if so, can the output 
be shunted through ps2pdf | pdftopnm | pbmtolj , or can it print to a 
file?   You can choose 'printer program'.  But I see no way to print to 
file.

> > To print webpages as 'root' with formatting and images,
> > you would need Phoenix (or later incarnations)
>
> I think Opera would do the job just as well.

Did you print formatted webpages as root with Opera?

> BTW it might be possible to pipe the ps output from
> Opera (or AbiWord) directly to your netpbm printing
> routine.  If you click on PRINT in Opera, you will
> see a tab for Printer Program.  It appears you can
> put your own program there (with parameters).

Yes, I just noticed that too.  Opera also lists all the filters
from /var/spool/lpd/postscript which appear in printcap, plus lp, under 
'destination'.  Perhaps those will work as root?

As printer program would I put:

ps2pdf $1 | pdftopnm | pbmtolj > /dev/lp0

How do I stop Opera from notifying me about newer versions?

Abiword, under File Print, lists printer command as 'lpr' - could I also 
change that to the above?

I will experiment.


> Cheers,
> Steven