Posted on 05/22/2007 3:58:41 PM PDT by calcowgirl
Does anyone know a way to save a webpage (html) as a PDF File without the software automatically adding in page breaks?
I have tried the "Print to PDF" function, but it always puts in page breaks and I can't find any "preference" option that would allow me to turn that function off.
I have tried by using the "Create PDF" function in the Adobe Acrobat software. That does allow me to create a single page up to 200 inches, but I want it larger than that.
In short, I want the PDF file to be a WYSIWYG (what you see is what you get) document of the webpage.
Any and all suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
What was that that just went flyin' right over my head? ;-)
...while the .html file can be opened by any browser, any text editor or any html editor on any host operating system.
That part I understand! Good point.
Oh, no! Please reconsider!
Don’t go punishing me just cuz I haven’t seen the light (yet) :-)
WYSIWYG doesn’t really apply to websites that don’t have fixed width and length tables.
With that in mind, you’re best bet is to avoid the PDF back up route and go with a html back up route. Upside: this software can automatically maintain an archive of your website doing archives at user defined regular intervals.
I haven’t had to do this in several years, but I still have this shareware software on my pc:
Local Website Archive / Website-Watcher
http://www.aignes.com/wsarc/
http://www.aignes.com/index.htm
http://www.aignes.com/editions.htm
Isn't there a custom page-size option?
There is a custom option in the “Create PDF” function, but not in the “Print to PDF” option (only those listed in the excerpt from my post that you noted). The “Create PDF” function has a maximum of 200 inches per page (or about 20 letter-sized pages).
Thanks! I think I’m missing the tech gene or something.
My eyes glaze over when I try to remember this stuff.
Thanks! Two more for my list to check out.
Thank you!
No, not yet. But I sure am learning a lot! :-)
Yep. Bump on that Foxit PDF editor. Also, even better, is Iceni InFix PDF Editor. But I doubt either one will help this user with this particular difficulty.
While in Safari, I went to page setup/manage custom sizes and created a size that's 8.5 by 300 inch.
I then went to print/pdf/save as pdf.
And it appears that I got what you were looking for.
Printing to paper, however, may be a different matter but the PDF file looked continuous for 300 inches.
If you are using XP and IE, see if you can set up a similar custom size in IE and then "print to file" if it doesn't have a PDF option. Then run the .ps file through Acrobat.
IIRC, you can print to file with IE, but I may be not remembering right.
You can download FREE PDF writers rather than paying for them. I have used CutePDF
www.cutepdf.com/Products/CutePDF/writer.asp
and PDFill
http://www.pdfill.com/pdf_writer_free.html
I pulled both from www.downloads.com after looking for free licenses that have good ratings.
The Foxit thing is good as a PDF EDITOR, as well as the Iceni InFix PDF Editor, which is superior. Both are about $100.
Our Mac at work has become a very expensive door stop.
Acrobat 7 pro is also limited to 200”, but the “print to PDF” feature on the Mac seems to not be limited. Just for fun, I made an 8.5”x1000” test.
It seems to be an arbitrary limit of whatever PDF writer you use.
I hope you don’t mind if I piggyback on your request. I just remembered I need some help also.
I need a program that will append PDFs onto a master PDF document based upon certain criteria. For instance, if the main datasheet uses 3 different package types, then I would need to append those 3 package PDFs, add an FAQ document PDF, and a product reliability/testing PDF as well, all of these documents merged into one SuperDatasheet PDF. I would need to be able to do this with several hundred datasheet PDF documents in such a way that if, say, one of the Package PDF docs gets changed, then I can automatically update and distribute that change to all of the datasheets that use that PDF document within hours rather than weeks.
Javascripting sounds like it would do the trick, but I’m not a developer. Also we found a piece of software called “Active PDF Toolkit” but our IT Department has given this project so little priority that more than 6 months later, they still have not yet evaluated it (it’s basically a COM programming environment for PDFs).
Traction Software has PDF U which has a Batch Process capability and can store a batch file. But the file is not manipulable without programming; we would need to be able to have some smarts and monitoring and conditions on which files get appended.
http://www.traction-software.co.uk/pdfuas/index.html
PDF U Append Dekstop Edition 1.08 Traction Software Batch Processing Version
Has anyone used PDFTK?
If PDF is electronic paper, then pdftk is an electronic staple-remover, hole-punch, binder, secret-decoder-ring, and X-Ray-glasses. Pdftk is a command-line ...
http://www.accesspdf.com/index.php?topic=pdftk -
Basically I need some software we can download and get the job done without relying upon our IT department to learn the scripting language. It can’t be too basic like some of the free PDF tools we can download (none of those work as far as I can tell), but it can also not be too complicated that I’d need to spend 6 months I don’t have to learn a scripting language or have our lame IT department drag their heels on the project.
PDF stands for “Page description format” so it’s strongly linked to the size and shape of a physical piece of paper. If you can get your driver configured to print on a 8.5” x 60” page size or something like that, it might work I think.
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