Need Computer Help - Creating PDF Documents

May 22, 2007 | Me

[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.

[Kevmo]

Hi Ace:

I was already on this thread and noticed the ping. I have piggybacked another request for help with PDFs and Dynamic creation / Content Management.

[zeugma]

You're probably not running Linux but for those who are, there is a really easy way to accomplish what you've asked. Simply print the file to a postscript file, then run ps2pdf against the file.

 ~ :) ls deleteme*
deleteme.ps
~ :) ps2pdf deleteme.ps
~ :) ls deleteme*
deleteme.pdf  deleteme.ps

In the example above, I show the postscript file I created, then run ps2pdf against it, then show both files. 

[zeugma]

The Foxit thing is good as a PDF EDITOR, as well as the Iceni InFix PDF Editor, which is superior. Both are about $100.

IIRC, one of the reasons you'll find many free PDF printers and renderers and expensive editors is because of the way adobe licensed the format. Adobe charges companies that make products that can edit a pdf document, but does not for those that can just display or print.

This is why, if you have OpenOffice, you'll find an option that allows you to print whatever you are working on to PDF, but if you try to open and edit a PDF, it won't do it.

[Kevmo]

Amerigomag: Portable Document Format, designed in the early 1990s by Adobe Systems, is slowly replacing PostScript as the preferred format for saving and viewing generic documents.

Still Thinking: PDF stands for “Page description format”

Which is it? Does PDF stand for Portable Document Format or Page description format? I had known it all these years as Portable Doc format.

[zeugma]

Portable Document Format

[editor-surveyor]

" if you have OpenOffice, you'll find an option that allows you to print whatever you are working on to PDF, but if you try to open and edit a PDF, it won't do it."

Word Perfect will both open and create PDF. (or any other text or word processor format)

[Amerigomag]

PDF = Portable Document Format

PostScript = A page description language (PDL)

[Kevmo]

Thanks. Can you help me on post #79?

[zeugma]

Word Perfect will both open and create PDF. (or any other text or word processor format)

Excellent. Didn't know that.  

[Snoopers-868th]

I really miss WordPerfect—was forced through work to use MS office and really missed the old WordPerfect—probably wouldn’t recognize it anymore. :(