#!/usr/bin/bash print_usage(){ echo "$0 : generates PDF files from html files in directorys and prints them"; echo "usage :"; echo "$0 directory [css [printer_host [printername]]]" echo " - directory directory to use to apply html2pdf transform"; echo " - css css file to apply to html "; echo " - printer_host Network Name or IP of the printer (port possibly included) "; echo " - printer_name printername "; echo "Note that css printerhost and printername are optional parameters "; echo "Note that this script uses xhtml2pdf command "; echo " xhtml2pdf command comes with pisa (a python library) To install you need setuptools library for python then type easy_install pisa "; exit 1; } if [ $# -lt 1 ] then print_usage fi if [[ ! -d $1 ]] then echo "$1 : directory expected"; exit 1; fi if [[ -n $2 && -f $2 ]] then set $optpisa "--css $2"; fi if [[ -n $3 ]] then set $optprinter "-h $3"; fi if [[ -n $4 ]] then set $optprinter "$optprinter -d $4"; fi for i in $1/*.html do xhtml2pdf $optpisa $i done lp $optprinter $1/*.pdf tar cvfz $directory`date "+%Y%m%d"`.tar.gz $directory rm -rf $directory