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Ask HN: Is there a simple tool to turn a website into a PDF?
In particular, a user manual: http://www.gaiagps.com/wiki/gaia_gps_user_manual
- jimminy 15y agoYou can try http://pdfmyurl.com/ http://pdfmyurl.com/ . I've used it in the past and it works okay, there are occasional formatting issues, but makes something acceptable.
- andrewljohnson 15y agoThanks - this just gives me a top level page for my site though - it doesn't follow all the links and make a book.
- jimminy 15y agoSorry, I guess I should have looked at your link first. I don't know of any service that serves that function.
- andrewljohnson 15y agoAbobe Acrobat has a feature like this, but it crashes on my site at least.
- Tomas123 15y agoI use http://www.web2pdfconvert.com http://www.web2pdfconvert.com Do web to pdf in several seconds. Also support Pdf by e-mail.
- mchannon 15y agoMac users simply need to hit print and "PDF...". Windows should offer similar functionality through a PDFWriter driver. But the site you have on your hands is going to be difficult to PDFify with even a very sophisticated, purpose-built application. It's full of recursive loops, frames, and external links that a crawler algorithm could get tripped up on (either providing multiple copies of the same information, providing them out of order, or snowballing once it left the main site). Judging by the "edited by" authorship notes on the site, I'd guess that this is your task to accomplish, you only need to do it once, and that perhaps all of the pertinent source documents (and little else) are located within the same directory, and that you have access to that directory's list of files. A straightforward "select all", "open", (find next in order), "print (to PDF)" manual process would help you complete that task. At that point you need only get a utility to append each PDF document into one.
- mikeroher 15y agohttp://pdfmyurl.com/ http://pdfmyurl.com/