Victor send me an email some days ago asking if I knew of a way to convert a full website into PDF format. I knew that there were several ways to convert a single page to pdf but I was not so sure about complete websites. I started to perform all kinds of searches but never came up with a free software that would convert a full website to PDF. That is, until I stumbled upon the most obvious choice of them all: The trial version of Adobe Acrobat.
Adobe Acrobat can be used as a trial version for 30 days and it actually does have the exact functionality that Victor is looking for. You can download it directly from Adobe with some nagging done by them. Before you can download the file you need to register an account and request the download link which will be send to your email account. My advise to Adobe is that if they want to lower their sales further they should make it even more complicated for users to download the trial versions.
Download and installation take a while since the download has a size of more than 250 Megabyte. Once installed though everything could not be more fluent. Press the keyboard shortcut SHIFT CTRL O or click on the Create PDF > From Web Page button. A menu opens that is asking for a url and offering several options on how to proceed from here.
You can specify the levels from the originating page or that you want to convert the whole website. It is normally a good idea to stay on the server and even on the path. If you do not do this the PDF could really download a lot of unrelated pages from other websites or areas of the same website. You will see the transfers in a box and the final version of the document will be shown at the end.
Works perfectly. The result can then be saved in the end as a pdf document.
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great,
thank you very much.
cool feature, I’ll have to give it a try
How to convert single page into pdf? Webpage from hard drive…please help :0)
iamdrin check this site:
http://www.htm2pdf.co.uk/default.aspx
where is the link
Using Firefox and the “Scrapbook” add-on I captured a website of 450+ pages–over 17 MB in size–but all links intact, all graphics, etc. Using Acrobat’s create pdf from webpage as Martin described, the final file was just over 2 MB–and worked perfectly. Bravo Martin!!
how can i convert it to pdf
Do you know of any open source products that will convert websites to PDFs or is Acrobat my only option?
great tutorial!!!But hey you can use primopdf too i think