The following command allows you to retrieve any Web document converted into PostScript file (including the images, if any, in the document) or Portable Document Format (PDF). But note that you cannot convert to PostScript or PDF protected Web pages. Send an e-mail
To: www4mail@wm.ictp.trieste.it Subject: (... whatever you like) GETPS (use one option line only!) URL_here
Use instead GETPDF to retrieve Portable Document Format files.
The requested Web document is sent as an attachment. This will
force your Mail User Agent the save file
option or to open
it automatically using a PostScript viewer (such as Ghostview)
or PDF Acrobad Reader (or xpdf
in Linux).
If other commands are not used in conjunction with GETPS or GETPDF
(such as GETSIZE to set the size of the www4mail
reply message) ,
www4mail
uses its default values -see section Automatic Splitting of Messages.
If the file requested is bigger than 300kB, then it will automatically get
split and sent in separate e-mails. A suitable application or command
(like UNIX cat
file1 file2 file3 > output.ps) can be
used to combine all chunks.
To receive the Web pages as PostScript or PDF files in the body of an e-mail and uuendoded, then you can use the following option
To: www4mail@wm.ictp.trieste.it Subject: (... whatever you like) GETPS (use one option line only!) XUUENCODE URL_here
Use instead GETPDF to retrieve Portable Document Format files.
www4mail
will always reply with an extra e-mail messages with
your usage statistics.
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