how to print a web page automatically

I would like to take the html output from the profile and by being in matlab open up each page and automatically print. I know I can view the page with:

web(['file://' fullfile(pwd,'file0.html')]);

but it doesn't seem to have a print capability. I've lots of web pages that I need to batch print.

I'm on mac os x sierra running matlab 2017b, Thanks-Robert

Answer 1

[Jan]

See e.g. http://gavinballard.com/automatically-converting-html-to-pdf-on-mac/ : At https://github.com/scottgarner/URL2PDF you find the tool URL2PDF and you can call it from Matlab by:

file = '/path/to/local/file.html';
system(sprintf('url2pdf --url=file://', %s', file)

Printing a PDF should be easy afterwards.

For a direct printing: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/8326955/print-html-file-with-cups

By the way: "print html file macos" are good keywords for a search in the internet.

Answer 2

[Marcel]

Hi,

is there a similar solution for Windows PC?

thanks

[Jan]

Please open a new thread for a new question.

Have you tried: https://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/fileexchange/21746-print-with-internet-explorer

[Marcel]

Hi, thanks for this link. Unfortunately I get the Error: The RPC server is unavailable, even if my Windows 10 Filewall is Off.

[Jan]

Again: Please start a discussion in a new thread. Post there exactly, what you have tried and a copy of the complete error message. I do not see, why calling the Internet Explorer through ActiveX is causing a problem with RPC or teh firewall.