I am trying to find a way to download an URL and convert it into a PDF.
I have found lots of suggestions on how to turn PDFs into HTML or HTML into PDFs, but that's not the same as what I want to do.
Basically I am looking for the same result as if I had opened the page in {insert browser of choice} and selected "Print" and then PDF » Save as PDF…
But I want to be able to do it all from Terminal, automatically, so that I can feed it a handful of URLs at once and have it do it all for me.
I don't need or want recursion to additional pages.
[Note: I have tried
wget --page-requisites --convert-linksbut it does not always actually fetch images which are loaded from a remote server. Also, assume for this execs that the URLs are not behind any sort of login requirement.]
Best Answer
Check out Wkhtmltopdf.
You can download the binary from that website. Note that you should change the file permissions to +x to make it executable.
For usage, check out http://code.google.com/p/wkhtmltopdf/wiki/Usage or execute: