If you want to save a website as a PDF, there are many different free-of-charge solutions at your disposal. In addition to different programs and web browser add-ons, there are also many web apps on offer that can turn individual web pages into a PDF. Most of the time, however, the results stemming from these apps are inadequate for many users: for example, perhaps some of the websites’ components weren’t able to be properly saved, or the formatting or quality of the images included in the document were noticeably poor. And it’s precisely this reason that we’ve researched some of the best applications for converting websites into Portable Document Format(PDF).
There are some situations where converting from HTML to PDF may be useful: for example, if you’d like to save an article, route description, or other content in order to be able to access it later without an internet connection. Portable Document Formats (PDFs) are among the most commonly used file formats out there and can be used across different platforms. As a result, PDFs can be called up on virtually any computer and operating system — the document can be easily and quickly transferred via a removable storage device (USB stick, memory card, etc.), online storage spaces, or an e-mail on another computer. This is particularly useful in cases where users wish to print a document but don’t have a printer attached to the computer they’re currently working on.
What’s more, saving websites as PDFs is useful when archiving online content. But what advantages do special programs offer when it comes to converting a website’s content into a PDF? After all, pushing [Ctrl] + [S] or right clicking your mouse and selecting ‘save page’ also has a similar effect.; screenshots are also often enough to get the job done.
But there are indeed good reasons to take advantage of some of the software options out there: unlike the browser’s simple ‘save page’ function, these tools are able to better display the details of a given page’s layout. A further advantage can also be observed when taking a look at the ‘save page’ function: this browser command saves an HTML file of the called up page as well as many other separate files of the corresponding page elements. PDF converter programs on the other hand provide their users with just one single PDF file. And unlike screenshots, the document always contains the complete website.
Even this program, which displays websites in separate sections, doesn’t always produce a one-to-one presentation of the website you aim to copy. The quality of the conversion depends first and foremost on the respective webpage’s content. More complex internet sites and dynamic content sometimes lack certain components; in other cases, a site’s formatting isn’t correctly taken on. Even the applications introduced in this text are not able to guarantee that web content will be fully transferred into a PDF file true to the original content’s form. Despite these shortcomings, these are the best available free-of-charge tools for converting HTML to PDF.
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Damien Miller
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