gHacks technology news » create pdf http://www.ghacks.net A technology blog covering software, mobile phones, gadgets, security, the Internet and other relevant areas. Wed, 25 Nov 2009 09:43:02 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 en hourly 1 Convert a full website to PDF http://www.ghacks.net/2008/04/12/convert-a-full-website-into-pdf/ http://www.ghacks.net/2008/04/12/convert-a-full-website-into-pdf/#comments Sat, 12 Apr 2008 12:14:59 +0000 Martin http://www.ghacks.net/?p=3786 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.

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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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]]> http://www.ghacks.net/2008/04/12/convert-a-full-website-into-pdf/feed/ 14 Official Microsoft Office PDF Plugin http://www.ghacks.net/2008/02/24/official-microsoft-office-pdf-plugin/ http://www.ghacks.net/2008/02/24/official-microsoft-office-pdf-plugin/#comments Sun, 24 Feb 2008 15:44:14 +0000 Martin http://www.ghacks.net/2008/02/24/official-microsoft-office-pdf-plugin/ There are several third party applications that make it possible to create PDF documents from within Microsoft Office. Most of these add a virtual printer that converts the Microsoft Office document to PDF. There is however an official way to add PDF – and XPS – support to Microsoft Office 2007 and its various programs like Microsoft Office Word 2007, Microsoft Office Excel 2007 and Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2007.

Microsoft is offering a plugin on their homepage that adds pdf support to Office 2007 adding PDF as one of the options in the Save As dialog. That’s probably the most effective way to add support for PDF documents to Microsoft Office 2007.

The plugin can only be downloaded if you have a genuine Microsoft Office 2007. The check will be made before the download link for the plugin becomes available.

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]]> http://www.ghacks.net/2008/02/24/official-microsoft-office-pdf-plugin/feed/ 11 Create PDF Documents out of any Windows Application http://www.ghacks.net/2008/02/16/create-pdf-documents-out-of-any-windows-application/ http://www.ghacks.net/2008/02/16/create-pdf-documents-out-of-any-windows-application/#comments Sat, 16 Feb 2008 19:07:55 +0000 Martin http://www.ghacks.net/2008/02/16/create-pdf-documents-out-of-any-windows-application/ I regularly have to create pdf invoices which some companies seem to prefer over other forms of documents and I have been using doc to pdf online converters until now that would convert the Microsoft .doc file into the Adobe .pdf file. I have two major problems with this procedure however.

The first is that i have to upload my invoice to a website so that it can be processed and converted into the portable document format. This is a privacy issues and I love my privacy as you all know. The second is that websites come and go and there is no telling if the website with the converter script will be there the next year.

I therefor decided to try some local solutions to create pdf documents without having to purchase Adobe Acrobat. WinPDF Writer is such a solution. It creates a virtual printer that creates pdf documents out of any text document that you create in Windows applications.

It’s working flawlessly with Microsoft Office and I suppose it would work with other applications as well. I just have to select the virtual printer to create the pdf document.

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]]> http://www.ghacks.net/2008/02/16/create-pdf-documents-out-of-any-windows-application/feed/ 11 The best way to create pdf documents http://www.ghacks.net/2007/08/22/the-best-way-to-create-pdf-documents/ http://www.ghacks.net/2007/08/22/the-best-way-to-create-pdf-documents/#comments Wed, 22 Aug 2007 10:46:31 +0000 Martin http://www.ghacks.net/2007/08/22/the-best-way-to-create-pdf-documents/ I have been using two methods to create pdf documents lately and made the decision to stick with one of them after evaluating both of them. Creating pdf documents is not something that I have to do on a daily basis but it was always a rather complicated process because I did not want to purchase a professional version of Adobe Acrobat only to create a handful of documents each year.

The first method that I discovered was a online service that created a pdf document out of documents that I would upload to their website. The newly created pdf document was then send to my email account. While this message had the advantage that I did not have to install a software on my system it has some disadvantages.

The most important for me are privacy concerns. I sometimes have to convert documents that I don’t want to expose to others and I don’t want to take that risk even if it is a slim one.

A far better solution in my opinion is doPDF which installs itself as a pdf printer on your system. Whenever you would need a pdf document you would simply choose to print – which does not print but save – the document that you want to convert.

This way a pdf document is created without third party involvement which is way better in my opinion.

Take a look at the Youtube video to see a demonstration:

link: dopdf homepage
online pdf converter: pdf online

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