Comments on: Convert a full website to PDF

By: sheikh

sheikh — Sun, 25 Dec 2011 12:10:59 +0000

yes i am facing the problem given bellow:
1) web page convert to pdf option is not converting hindi or devnagri script font web page how to do it ?

By: Nasorenga

Nasorenga — Tue, 20 Dec 2011 22:57:31 +0000

Thanks for this tip. I just converted a whole html e-book (over 300 pages with illustrations) and it worked beautifully!

By: Nasorenga

Nasorenga — Tue, 20 Dec 2011 22:55:43 +0000

Yah, but it only converts a single page, not a full web site (which is the subject of this article).

By: Nasorenga

Nasorenga — Tue, 20 Dec 2011 22:49:33 +0000

That only converts a page, not a whole site.

By: ad869

ad869 — Sun, 18 Sep 2011 15:44:33 +0000

Adobe Acrobat can be a great tool for archiving websites to PDF when it works, but but its severely limited by crashes for bigger use use due to out of memory errors. The out of memory error or IO errors that come up mean the program terminates and the pdf capture you see on the screen can never be saved or recovered, even if you preserve the temp file.

I do legal research, and often I need to capture a blog (eg. on blogger) so I have a permanent record of what was written and what the links link to (since blogs can change and content can be deleted). If I try to do a 2-level capture, its usually ok, but it does not get enough data – it will link out to level and that is it. Usually you need at least 3 (link out to another page, and the subsequent content/document hosted there). However when I do a 3-level capture of an entire blog site, after about 8000 pdf pages, I get out of memory errors in XP or Win7 on machines with 1 to 4 gigs of ram and 40 – 500 gigs of free hard disk space.

I thought it was just me but I tried in on 4 different machines and read the forums and this is a common unresolved problem. It has something to do with the size of the temporary folder, and/or the file size limitations of Acrobat and Windows. It seems that Acrobat creates a single temp pdf file in a directory of the downloaded site and either that file gets too big for it to handle or when you try to save the file it gets too big for the temp folder, regardless of how much disk space you have – emptying the temp folder does not help. There is no resolution to this issue yet – I had this problem with Acrobat 7 and 8, and it still exists in the Acrobat X trial I used last week. Adobe should try to re-engineer the save mechanism so that its caps limits the temp file size and then processes it into a saved PDF before continuing, or allows you to set a page limit, or enables you to continue a capture from a certain page/file count.

Bottom line, its a great tool if you use it mildly and limit the depth/size of your searches. If you don’t, you will waste hours of time and bandwidth since the resulting file will just crash the program and be irrecoverable, so caution. Peace-out from Ottawa.

By: Ajit D

Ajit D — Sat, 27 Aug 2011 07:01:44 +0000

oh oh oh.. I’ve got a problem with Adobe Acrobat. The sequence is not proper of the pages. Example-

link1->link-2-[data]
link1->link-3-[data]
then again
link1->link-2-[data]…

I think all the data under link1 must come continuously.. which is not in my case… I can’t make proper page numbers because of this problem…

Any one faced the same problem???

By: Ajit D

Ajit D — Sat, 27 Aug 2011 06:27:26 +0000

Thanks, I did it with Adobe Acrobat. Yesterday I wasted my 5 hours to do this task and now the software did it for me in 15 minutes..

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By: The Money Coach

The Money Coach — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 01:32:10 +0000

Now that over a year has past, do we know if there are any good WordPress plugins that will convert a series of posts into a single PDF? I tried poking around myself but still see that the default is to convert a single page or post. Any updates would be appreciated.

By: Prakash

Prakash — Mon, 24 May 2010 10:24:04 +0000

Hi,

I am getting “Authorization Failure” error message when I give the Windows Authenticated SharePoint portal URL. Could you please let me know how to fix this?

Regards,
Prakash

By: Wartus

Wartus — Fri, 07 May 2010 06:45:43 +0000

Try pdfmyurl, it’s free and you don’t need to download or install anything.

http://pdfmyurl.com

By: kranthi

kranthi — Wed, 24 Mar 2010 08:45:29 +0000

use cutepdf

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 15:28:35 +0000

thanks

By: Alex

Alex — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 02:37:10 +0000

Very nice indeed! Very useful.
Does anybody know if the links are preserved in the conversion?

By: bousmaha007

bousmaha007 — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 22:18:40 +0000

thank you but where is the Link

By: Ahamed

Ahamed — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 06:01:47 +0000

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By: JM

JM — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 16:05:42 +0000

Acrobat did convert my website to pdf.

However, I have a page with tree nodes that calls a .js page for expansion functions. After conversion, the pdf document was not able to open the tree nodes.

Any help on how I could get the tree nodes to expand, contract in the Pdf document would be a big help.

By: Len

Len — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 03:40:28 +0000

It LOOKS like it’s going to work then I get a message…
‘Nothing Done’
Authorization failure and the url

Is there a way to get around this?

Thanks