The title really says it all. It is about a 3 page paper from the C.R. Paris. It was hell to locate and when I found it, I could download only one page at a time in .htm format. In fact each download saved an htm file and also created a new directory containing 47 files, evidently needed to load the main page. So three main files, three new subdirectories and 141 further support files for three lousy pages. When I printed it, each “page” printed as three pages of auxiliary garbage and one page of actual text. If I can “print” to a pdf file, I have software that can extract the one useful page out of each 4 page file and produce a 3 page pdf file of the original paper.
Sure, there are a few ways to do this.
On Windows, you can use Google Chrome to open each .HTM file, then press Ctrl-P and select “Save as PDF”. If you don’t have Chrome, you can install a PDF printer such as BullZip and then use Internet Explorer or Firefox to print the pages to PDF.
This is what I got (before Heracles posted) using CutePDF:
These boards are wonderful. After reading the above I did what I should have done first. Inspired by them I searched Firefox for add-ons and discovered one called Fireshot, a screenshot program for Firefox. It works well and did the job.
If that really does the job then I’m glad you’re done, but that method produces an image rather than text, so you can’t do things like copy text, or search for text in that kind of PDF. But maybe you don’t need to.
What OS do you use? Printing to PDF is a native feature in OSX, so anything you can put on paper, you can put into a PDF. Command-P to bring up the print dialog, then click the PDF button in the lower left.
Yes and if you install a PDF printer in Windows, you can do the same too. I use PrimoPDF. It’s free. So anything you can print, you can save as a PDF.
Yes it produces a bit image. But it is heavy with mathematical notation and no OCR device can do anything useful with that. But just to see the difference, the three page paper created a pdf file of over 1.1 Mb. A 55 page paper of mine in pdf format using embedded font info was just less than half that size. But I didn’t want to search it, just read it and send a copy to my coauthors. It was on the web, but a real pain to find.