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CreatePDF.in: My two hour website to pdf project
- gscott 16y agoUses latest start of the art technologies. ASP Classic, HTML with Tables. No abuse control at the moment (although I have set a CPU and bandwidth limit in IIS). Has simple api where you can generate a PDF of a page. I have a client who needs this and I have been shoving it off to my own server but now I can just use this instead as a more generic solution. Supports saving the PDF in landscape.
- wowfat 16y agohow do you take the screenshot of the website? can this be used to make png / jpeg to get a thumbnails of websites? Also finally how do you create pdf, is it some pdf printer?
- blueberry 16y agoIt doesn't even work with style sheets. Can you specify what it works with?
- defrex 16y agoI believe "start of the art" is a pun, since he's using lame tech.
- dpapathanasiou 16y agoIt worked pretty well with http://nytimes.com http://nytimes.com just now.
- gscott 16y agoTurned out I had javascript, flash and some other things turned off. It uses Abcpdf component to create the pdf, I just found that a bunch of options are turned off by default.
- gmosx 16y agoWhich library is used to render the PDF file?
- xabi 16y agohttp://code.google.com/p/wkhtmltopdf/ http://code.google.com/p/wkhtmltopdf/ ?
- atomical 16y agoI think webkit would be a better renderer.
- tszming 16y agoI doubt why you need "HTML Tidy for Linux" :)
- gscott 16y agoSomething the w3c validator now offers, never noticed it before so I tried it out, my html is best just w3c never agrees with me.
- arpitnext 16y agoI have created a bookmarklet. Try it here: http://blog.arpitnext.com/tools/creat-pdf-bookmarklet.html http://blog.arpitnext.com/tools/creat-pdf-bookmarklet.html
- jacksoncarter 16y agoNice work. Doesn't work well with AJAX though.
- arturadib 16y agoDoesn't work with JavaScript. Search Google for "browser testing" for some screenshot services that do.
- RiderOfGiraffes 16y agoHow does this compare with htmldoc? http://www.htmldoc.org/ http://www.htmldoc.org/
- adammichaelc 16y agoTried homevalueprotect.com Got back: ABCpdf6.Doc.1 error '80004005' Unable to render HTML. Unable to load page. /index.asp, line 135
- chunkyslink 16y agoI got a blank pdf for www.engageinteractive.co.uk
- johnrob 16y agoI'd prefer a tool that did the exact opposite (without flash).
- _delirium 16y agoThis is one option: http://pdftohtml.sourceforge.net/ http://pdftohtml.sourceforge.net/
- apu 16y agoI generally "print to pdf" if I want a pdf of a page, or use the firefox screengrab plugin to make png images of full page-length (super-awesome!): https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1146/ https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1146/
- dangrossman 16y agoDoesn't look anything like how a browser renders it. I'll just use a PDF print driver.
- bokonist 16y agoNot bad, needs more margins at the top and the bottom but otherwise looks quite good.