Posted by lkrubner on 10/26/05 00:00

> What kind of system are you running on (linux, windows,
> mac, etc)?
> My first thought would be to have the system call a web
> browser's print
> function, but that may be a bit too complex since it would amost
> certainly involve some kind of shell scripting or creating a
> simple web browser yourself

I'm sorry that I was not more clear before. I want to write a shell
script in PHP or Perl that will run on an HP Unix system. The script
should build up a string of HTML, turn it into a rendered web page,
send that to the printer, then return control the command line. When I
say "turn the string into a web page" I mean that HTML image tags
should print out as images, not HTML image tags.

I'm wondering how people would do this. Someone suggested I invoke the
rendering engine on mozilla, but I'm not clear on how this is done.

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