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NAME

HTML::FormatPS - Format HTML as postscript

SYNOPSIS

  require HTML::FormatPS;
  $html = parse_htmlfile("test.html");
  $formatter = new HTML::FormatPS
                   FontFamily => 'Helvetica',
                   PaperSize  => 'Letter';
  print $formatter->format($html);

DESCRIPTION

The HTML::FormatPS is a formatter that output PostScript code. Formatting of HTML tables and forms is not implemented.

You might specify the following parameters when constructing the formatter:

PaperSize

What kind of paper should we format for. The value can be one of these: A3, A4, A5, B4, B5, Letter, Legal, Executive, Tabloid, Statement, Folio, 10x14, Quarto.

The default is "A4".

PaperWidth

The width of the paper in points. Setting PaperSize also defines this value.

PaperHeight

The height of the paper in points. Setting PaperSize also defines this value.

LeftMargin

The left margin in points.

RightMargin

The right margin in points.

HorizontalMargin

Both left and right margin at the same time. The default value is 4 cm.

TopMargin

The top margin in points.

BottomMargin

The bottom margin in points.

VerticalMargin

Both top and bottom margin at the same time. The default value is 2 cm.

PageNo

The parameter determine if we should put page numbers on the pages. The default is yes, so you have to set this value to 0 in order to suppress page numbers.

FontFamily

The parameter specify which family of fonts to use for the formatting. Legal values are "Courier", "Helvetica" and "Times". The default is "Times".

FontScale

All fontsizes might be scaled by this factor.

Leading

How much space between lines. This is a factor of the fontsize used for that line. Default is 0.1.

SEE ALSO

HTML::Formatter

COPYRIGHT

Copyright (c) 1995 Gisle Aas. All rights reserved.

This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.

AUTHOR

Gisle Aas <aas@oslonett.no>