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Is that an http server in your pocket, or are you just happy to see me?

HTML to PDF converter

Given the integration of PDF into Mac OS X, I was surprised to find that there didn’t seem to be any tool to convert HTML files into PDFs. So, like any frustrated coder I wrote my own little script to do it: html2pdf.py

Requires python and OSX 10.5 (Leopard). It uses a WebKit view for the rendering, so in theory it should work with any URL that safari can handle - but I haven’t exactly tested it thoroughly…

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  • not that we’re pointing fingers or anything…

RSS Pipe: Fetch Full Feed

A cunning yahoo pipe to replace crappy (a.k.a summary) RSS feeds with full page contents.

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Tehee, that’s awesome.

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Hmm, maybe that wasn’t entirely thought through…