Looking for HTML to PDF converter

Factual Questions
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I’ve got a big pile of documentation in the form of very simple HTML pages (nothing but text, a simple CSS, and links to other HTML files). I’d like to convert it to a PDF so it’s easier to send around, print, etc.

I found lots & lots & lots of places on the web that will convert one HTML file to a PDF, but nothing that will take a group of linked HTML files and put them in one big PDF, with the links working.

Technically, it’s not that hard of a challenge - just recognize the links, follow them to the specified .html file, import that file into the PDF and change the link to a PDF bookmark so it works.

Does anyone know of something that will do that?

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Do you know anyone with Adobe Acrobat Pro? I used to have it on my machine when I was using InDesign, but sadly I’ve moved to another machine… As they could do it with ease.

Does Primo PDF allow for that kind of conversion? I remember that as a good program for converting to PDFs. Google Primo Pdf

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You might try “pisa htmltopdf”, or one of the other results that pop up in a Google search.

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Primo is what I use (though it is not without its problems). You could use the browser of your choice to render the HTML and then “print” it to Primo which produces a .pdf file.

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[QUOTE=the PC apeman]
Primo is what I use (though it is not without its problems). You could use the browser of your choice to render the HTML and then “print” it to Primo which produces a .pdf file.
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Will it find the multiple pages referred to in the HTML links and also print those?

That’s the functionality that all the ones I’ve found are missing.

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[QUOTE=One Day Fish Sale]
You might try “pisa htmltopdf”, or one of the other results that pop up in a Google search.
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Yeah, that’s what I did for two hours last night, before I started this thread. None that I could find had the functionality I needed.

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[QUOTE=Athena]
Yeah, that’s what I did for two hours last night, before I started this thread. None that I could find had the functionality I needed.
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Sorry, I didn’t read the OP very closely.

I could show you the basics of a Unix script that will do what you want. Let me know if that would be useful to you.

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[QUOTE=One Day Fish Sale]
Sorry, I didn’t read the OP very closely.

I could show you the basics of a Unix script that will do what you want. Let me know if that would be useful to you.
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Bleah, yeah, I can write a script or some code to do it. I was just hoping to find something already out there.

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If you didn’t come across htmldoc in your search, you might want to give it a shot.

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I have Adobe Acrobat Pro and it has an option to create pdf from website url and a “get x levels/get entire site” option.

If you send me the link and tell me what you want grabbed, I’ll see what I can do with it.

My email’s in my profile.

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You can find several software programs that install a ‘PDF printer’ onto your machine. Then in any program that can print output, you switch from your regular printer to this PDF printer. Whatever would have been printed is instead stored as a PDF file on your machine.

I use PDFCreator, but there are many others available. Once you have installed one of these, you can simply use the print function in your browser to create PDF files of any HTML webpage. (As well as the word processor, spreadsheet program, etc. that you have on your machine.)

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[QUOTE=Athena]
Will it find the multiple pages referred to in the HTML links and also print those?

That’s the functionality that all the ones I’ve found are missing.
[/QUOTE]
Well Primo doesn’t, no. But the HTML browser you use to print to Primo might. I’ve not tried it but in IE7 there is a “Print all linked documents” option in the print dialog.

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