Ubuntu – Create pdf from HTML book

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There are some sites that provide books as HTML pages (e.g., legal stuff).

What can I use to create a PDF book from these pages, based on the already-existing structure?

In Windows there is Adobe Professional (commercial software). I'm guessing that Linux has something free? A solution involving scripting would be OK for me.

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Calibre is a pretty powerful tool for converting things into ebooks in various formats. Available in a Software Centre near you!

Don't be deceived by its less than beautiful UI, it can do a lot.

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pdftohtml is probably what you're looking for.

Info about the package: packages.ubuntu.com/lucid/pdftohtml

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I would suggest installing the WKHtmlToPDF tool from http://wkhtmltopdf.org/ (moved from: http://code.google.com/p/wkhtmltopdf/).

You can then change to the root folder and use find and xargs to convert them:

cd /main-folder
find . -name \*.html | sed 's/.html$//g' | xargs -n 1 --replace=X wkhtmltopdf X.html X.pdf

This will then build a PDF with each HTML file.

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