Gen­er­ate a HTML file with ran­dom col­ored table cells. Con­vert to pdf via html2ps.

#!/bin/bash

 

# FFFFFF:000000:FF0000:00FF00:0000FF # COLORS

 

HTMLFILE=colortable.htm
W=10
H=70

 

echo "<html><body>"                             >  $HTMLFILE
echo "<table width=\"100%\" height=\"100%\">"   >> $HTMLFILE

 

 ROW=0; while [ $ROW -lt $H ]
  do
     echo "<tr>"                                >> $HTMLFILE
 CELL=0; while [ $CELL -lt $W ]
  do
    COLOR=`grep COLORS $0 | \
           head -1 | \
           cut -d "#" -f 2 | \
           sed 's/:/\\n/g' | \
           sed 's/ //g' | shuf -n 1`

 

    echo "<td bgcolor=\"#$COLOR\""              >> $HTMLFILE
    echo "width=\"$((100 / $W))%\" "            >> $HTMLFILE
    echo "height=\"$((200 / $H))%\"></td>"      >> $HTMLFILE

 

    CELL=`expr $CELL + 1`
  done
     echo "</tr>"                               >> $HTMLFILE
    ROW=`expr $ROW + 1`
  done

 

echo "</tr></table>"                            >> $HTMLFILE
echo "</body></html>"                           >> $HTMLFILE

 

html2ps --colour $HTMLFILE > ${HTMLFILE%%.*}.ps
ps2pdf ${HTMLFILE%%.*}.ps
rm ${HTMLFILE%%.*}.ps

 


 

exit 0;