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Re: PDFmyURL.com - Convert and save pdf from any webpage for free

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Post by timf »

I'd seen this kind of thing before but voted up after checking out the 'advanced options' section. After some googling of those "man page" style options, I see now this is probably a web wrapper around [1] so I will more likely integrate that program directly into something I'm working on. But still bookmarking the site for quick jobs.

[1] - http://github.com/antialize/wkhtmltopdf

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Post by matt1 »

timf wrote: post #2

I'd seen this kind of thing before but voted up after checking out the 'advanced options' section. After some googling of those "man page" style options, I see now this is probably a web wrapper around [1] so I will more likely integrate that program directly into something I'm working on. But still bookmarking the site for quick jobs. [1] - http://github.com/antialize/wkhtmltopdf

I've been researching ways to print the timelines on my site, Preceden. There's a complicated mix of HTML and CSS and, needless to say, it doesn't print by simply clicking Print on the browser:

http://preceden.com/timelines/2-biographies/print

This is an awesome tool because I can just add a link to the conversion URL, and wam bam: printing capabilities.

I have to tweak the CSS on the print page a bit because the site renders it a bit differently than the browser, but it works really well.

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Post by patio11 »

timf wrote: post #2

I'd seen this kind of thing before but voted up after checking out the 'advanced options' section. After some googling of those "man page" style options, I see now this is probably a web wrapper around [1] so I will more likely integrate that program directly into something I'm working on. But still bookmarking the site for quick jobs. [1] - http://github.com/antialize/wkhtmltopdf

Ooh -- if that works I could do my dashboards in HTML/CSS, print them to PDF, convert the PDF to an image file, and use that. That would make my life much easier, as producing the PDFs directly is a bit of a kludge. Thanks, I'll have to look into that later.

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Post by JayNeely »

Even better than a bookmarklet, make it so that anyone can type your URL in front of the one they want PDFed, and it will do so automatically. e.g. http://pdfmyurl.com/news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1190151

Aviary.com does this for site screenshots, and I love it.

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Post by grannyg00se »

This is impressive. If there was an option to have the link destinations on the requested page also included in the PDF, that would be even better. That way we could specify hacker news as the site, then all of the comments pages and stories would be included in the PDF as well.

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Post by WalkingDead »

For offline version I had been using this application for some time now...

WebKit HTML to PDF http://code.google.com/p/wkhtmltopdf/

This is a PDF generator which uses WebKit engine to render the HTML page and then converts to PDF. Has command line advanced options, like this site.

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