How can I automate HTML-to-PDF conversions?

Question

I\'ve been using htmldoc for a while, but I\'ve run into some fairly serious limitations. I need the end solution to work on a Linux box. I\'ll be calling this library/utili

Answer 1

This would be total overkill, but you could download and install mirth. It is a message routing engine, but it has the ability to convert html to pdf, so you could set it up to pick up an html file in a folder, convert to pdf, and drop the pdf in the same or other folder. Like I said, overkill, a bit of a learning curve, but it's free, and java so you can run it on linux if you like. And all your perl app would have to do is drop the html to a file.