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From: John Hendy <jw.hendy@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Org HTML->PDF publishing
Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2012 13:12:14 -0500
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To: Marcelo de Moraes Serpa <celoserpa@gmail.com>
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If you have the html, there seem to be some things around to convert to PDF:
- http://code.google.com/p/wkhtmltopdf/
- http://pypi.python.org/pypi/xhtml2pdf/
- http://www.winnovative-software.com/download.aspx
- http://www.html2pdf.fr/en

Good luck!
John

On Tue, Sep 18, 2012 at 12:58 PM, Marcelo de Moraes Serpa
<celoserpa@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hey guys,
>
> Is it feasible to publish something (say an ebook) to html and then convert
> it to pdf?
>
> I know *TeX is the most powerful framework for creating PDFs, but given that
> I'm more familiar with CSS, I'm sure I could come up with a better style for
> the document in much less time than if, say, using LaTeX, as of now.
>
> My thought is, publish to HTML via org using a custom CSS, and then convert
> this HTML+CSS to PDF somehow - I'm still not sure how exactly - printing to
> PDF from the browser might be an option, however, I'm afraid that the final
> PDF quality will not be enough for the given publication.
>
> Has anyone tried this workflow?
>
> Cheers,
>
> - Marcelo.