This simple utility wraps iText and flying saucer to quickly create PDF's from the commandline.
cs philcali/spdf
sdpf -h [file|folder|url...] -i [-o out.pdf]
The url must be in the form of *://*. The specified output file must be in
the form of *.pdf*.
The utility was designed to play nice with other CL tools, so input and output can be piped and redirected (in fact, it is encouraged to do so).
cat flyer.html | spdf > out.pdf
curl www.google.com | spdf > google.pdf
lmxml flyer.lmxml | spdf -o out.pdf
It's possible to create a multiple page document from a sequence of interspersed files, folders, or URL's by adding them to the var args. For example:
spdf http://google.com /home/philip/flyer.pdf > branding.pdf
spd /my/book > book.pdf
By using the -i flag, you can pipe input files, folders, or URL's from
other shell commands. This would be particularly useful if you wanted to control
the order of pages. For example:
find ./book | grep ".html$" | spdf cover.html -i > book.pdf
This would first load cover.html, then all of the html files in a directory
called book piped to spdf. When run with -i, spdf expects valid inputs to
be separated by some kind of whitespace.
- Currently, flying saucer will explode trying to paint a grid layout.
- The CSS resolver in flying saucer will throw a IOException, if it is given
an empty or
null,InputStream.
Because spdf uses iText for PDF conversion, this application must also be licensed under AGPL.
Read the LICENSE for spdf's copyright.