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Convert Any Web Page to a PDF File
Have you ever wanted to download one or more web pages in a form that you could read on a PDA or an ebook reader? Have you ever come across a large web page which you wanted to print, but which your web browser simply couldn't scale properly?
One way to solve both of these problems, and more, is to convert that web page to a PDF file, and www.web2pdfconvert.com is a great, easy and free way to do just that. Go to the site, enter the URL of the page you want to convert, press the button, and in just a few seconds your PDF file is ready to download.
This site, as a PDF, courtesy of www.web2pdfconvert.com
As a way of archiving important web-based information alongside traditional documents, converting the files to PDF format makes a lot of sense, as you can then add them to your indexing system. It also makes it easy to download web-based manuals and read them on an e-reader such as a Kindle.
Another reason why I like www.web2pdfconvert.com is because I sometimes need to print a web page which is too large for my printer. Almost all of the browsers I've tried tend to make a mess of printing large pages. By converting the page to PDF first, and then letting Adobe Reader handle the printing, I have much more control over the whole process.
My thanks to user Tomazaz for bringing this Hot Find to my attention. If there's a freeware product or web-based service that you think qualifies as a Hot Find, please let me know via http://www.techsupportalert.com/content/submit-product-review.htm.
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All above website and tools sucks except PDFIT add-on in firefox
I agree that the add on actually saves an image but it is very fast
You don't need to wait until some website convert it for you and then you download.
open any webpage with firefox even when not connected to the internet right click save as pdf with pdf it
try a firefox plug in called pdfit
Why no mention of Printwhatyoulike
http://pdfmyurl.com/
1st choice: Bullzip
2nd choice: siteshoter w/ Free JPG to PDF
EXAMPLE: C:\siteshoter /url "http://www.techsupportalert.com/content/convert-any-web-page-pdf-file.htm" /filename gizmo.jpg /browserautosize 1 & j2p /NOASK & sdelete -p 3 *.jpg
3rd choice: hit alt + prt scr and paste in Irfanview then save as pdf
binaryweasel
For capturing an entire website (or at least multiple pages) Acrobat *was* hard to beat (I haven't used Acrobat in so long I don't know if the feature still works).
I'm afraid I'm missing something. Can't this be done simply by "printing" the web page with a virtual printer like Bullzip Pdf printer or Pdf maker?
Well, being initially as perplex as you are, I did figure out that if there is no benefit for those of us who do have a PDF virtual printer, OTOH it is of interest for those who haven't and for anybody from a public computer without such virtual printer.
The Screengrab add-on for Firefox will instantly save or copy a web page (complete page, visible portion, selection, or window) to a PNG or JPG file.
Then, use ImageMagick to convert PNG/JPG to PDF. Works in both Linux and Windows. See here for ImageMagick commands: http://www.linux.com/archive/feature/113978 .
There's a Firefox add-on that does this also on any webpage with one click.
I tried two Firefox add-ons for this. "PDF Download" took forever, but "Web2PDF Converter" (which actually uses www.web2pdfconvert.com) did it really fast.
There's another one : PDFmyURL (http://www.pdfmyurl.com/)
PDFmyURL carried a watermark on each page when I tried it last month.
So does the one offered in this page's article-in-chief... and its bigger.
And PDFmyURL works about the same way... with a little button you can add to the browser and everything. In fact, from my cursory look at the two of them, PDFmyURL is kinda' easier to use.
Both of them create slightly odd-looking PDF files, though.
Still... very cool.
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Gregg L. DesElms
Napa, California USA
You're are mistaken. Web2PDFConvert has no watermark at all.
You may find the watermark close to the bottom of the last page of the PDF converted document. Certainly there are ways to get rid of it. And certainly cumbersome as well.
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