Sometimes it is a good idea to save a web page to a pdf file. For instance, I have just discovered that the quality newspaper Bangkok Post’s online pages are just free for the first 60 days after publication.
The article above discusses how sensors are used in a Thai vineyard. Since my students are hungry for local use of sensors I wanted to save the page as pdf.
There are several ways to do this. The best result I got with PDF Download which is a free Internet service. I dragged an icon called ‘Save Page as PDF’ to my browser’s Bookmarks toolbar (I use Chrome), and when I find a web page to convert, I simply click Save Page as PDF and wait a moment to receive my PDF copy.
I tried PrimoPDF, but when I printed to its driver the result was not identical to the original. There are add-ons for Firefox that saves the entire web page as an image, but since people are more familiar with PDF files, and one may add text to them with CuteFTP, I prefer the pdf solution. It should be noted that the PDF files are really just images, one may not select part of the text.
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