THANK YOU! This fixed a lot of my headaches. I wrote html2pdf.pl with this as base, which works with files as well as with URL's:

#!/usr/bin/perl

use 5.14.2;
use warnings;

our $VERSION = "0.01 - 20191210";
our $CMD = $0 =~ s{.*/}{}r;

sub usage {
    my $err = shift and select STDERR;
    say "usage: $CMD [-p A4] [-f] [-o file.pdf] file.html";
    say "    -p size   --page-size=size   Set page size. Default = A4"
+;
    say "    -o out    --out=out          Set ouput file name. Default
+ = s{.html\$}{.pdf}";
    say "    -f        --force            Overwrite out if exists";
    exit $err;
    } # usage

use Data::Peek;
use PDF::WebKit;
use Getopt::Long qw(:config bundling);
GetOptions (
    "help|?"            => sub { usage (0); },
    "V|version"         => sub { say "$CMD [$VERSION]"; exit 0; },

    "f|force!"          => \ my $opt_f,
    "p|page-size=s"     => \(my $page_size = "A4"),
    "o|out|pdf=s"       => \ my $pdff,

    "v|verbose:1"       => \(my $opt_v = 0),
    ) or usage (1);

my $html = shift or usage (1);
$pdff  ||= $html =~ s{\.html?$}{.pdf}ri =~ s{.*/}{}r;

-s $pdff && !$opt_f and die "$pdff already exists\n";
unlink $pdff;

PDF::WebKit->new ($html, page_size => $page_size)->to_file ($pdff);

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Images, colors *and* fonts are correct, which I cannot say for the very broken htmldoc and html2ps tools.


Enjoy, Have FUN! H.Merijn

In reply to Re^2: printing metacpan by Tux
in thread printing metacpan by lee_crites

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