wkpdf Automator

[MVasilakis]

Hi,
I found this great command line tool wkpdf for taking web pages and saving it as a pdf. The advantage of this to the built in print to pdf are that it can pint the web page without page breaks. (--paginate no)


I built an Automator action to handle HTML files I have downloaded and convert to pdf.

Pretty simple to do:
Application receives files and folders as input
Run shell script [/bin/bash Pass input: as arguments]

#! /bin/bash
for file in "$@"
do 
wkpdf --source "$file" --print-background yes --paginate no --output "$file".pdf
done

Works fine.
So I figured well why not make an Automator service that will work directly from within Firefox (or any web browser or application)

So I set up:
Service recieves selected URLs in any application
input is only URLs
Run shell script [/bin/bash Pass input: as arguments]

mkdir -p ~/Documents/SavedHTML
cd ~/Documents/SavedHTML

wkpdf --source "$@" --print-background yes --paginate no --output "$@".pdf

This wont work. I've tried every combination of "service receives..." I can think of. I've only been able to make it work in safari if I first save the url via action and then pass to the shell script. Problem is I prefer Firefox so this solution, aside from being clunky since it saves the html aslo, wont work for me.

Anyone out there that can offer some assistance?

[tw]

My guess would be that $@ is being interpreted as an array (even though there's only one file). try using the for loop like you do in your original example, or try using $1 instead of $@ - either should get the desired URL out of the list of parameters.