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Writing a program that pulls article URLs from Pocket, saves the content as PDFs, groups that up in categories based on Pocket tags (e.g. #econ, #tech, etc), an
by realtalk_sp 7y ago
Writing a program that pulls article URLs from Pocket, saves the content as PDFs, groups that up in categories based on Pocket tags (e.g. #econ, #tech, etc), and emails out composite PDF "volumes" to me as they hit 250 pages. Plan is to then send them to a cheap PDF printing service like https://www.printme1.com/ https://www.printme1.com/ (if anyone knows of anything even lower cost, I'm all ears).
I like reading physical books and taking notes in them but I realized there's a lot of good content in the form of blog posts, articles, etc that I also want to include in my primary information diet and it would really help to have them in paper copies that I can easily write on and reference. Much of the kind of content I anticipate saving also has superior information density versus books, so I'm excited to get this working.
- zzo38computer 7y agoOther than PDF, can any such services support other file formats, and can they provide information such as METAFONT modes, colour management, resolution, printable area, separations, etc? I may want to rasterize or otherwise process the data on my own computer before being printed.
- realtalk_sp 7y agowkhtmltopdf has options to adjust some of the things you mentioned. I'm sure there are other more sophisticated programs that go further. It's really a question of what HTML/CSS can be transformed into. PDF suffices for my use case (and I also specifically wanted minimal manual overhead) but I'm sure there are other options.
- zzo38computer 7y agoNo, I mean if a printing service can print files other than PDF, such as prerasterized files for their printer instead, for example.
- realtalk_sp 6y agoOh not sure about that. Haven't encountered one to date.