CreatePDF.in: My two hour website to pdf project

http://www.CreatePDF.in

by gscott • 16 years ago

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gscott4• 16 years ago

Uses latest start of the art technologies. ASP Classic, HTML with Tables. No abuse control at the moment (although I have set a CPU and bandwidth limit in IIS).

Has simple api where you can generate a PDF of a page. I have a client who needs this and I have been shoving it off to my own server but now I can just use this instead as a more generic solution. Supports saving the PDF in landscape.

wowfat• 16 years ago

how do you take the screenshot of the website? can this be used to make png / jpeg to get a thumbnails of websites?

Also finally how do you create pdf, is it some pdf printer?

blueberry2• 16 years ago

It doesn't even work with style sheets. Can you specify what it works with?

defrex• 16 years ago

I believe "start of the art" is a pun, since he's using lame tech.

dpapathanasiou• 16 years ago

It worked pretty well with http://nytimes.com just now.

gscott4• 16 years ago

Turned out I had javascript, flash and some other things turned off. It uses Abcpdf component to create the pdf, I just found that a bunch of options are turned off by default.

gmosx• 16 years ago

Which library is used to render the PDF file?

xabi• 16 years ago

http://code.google.com/p/wkhtmltopdf/ ?

atomical• 16 years ago

I think webkit would be a better renderer.

tszming• 16 years ago

I doubt why you need "HTML Tidy for Linux"

gscott4• 16 years ago

Something the w3c validator now offers, never noticed it before so I tried it out, my html is best just w3c never agrees with me.

arpitnext• 16 years ago

I have created a bookmarklet. Try it here:

http://blog.arpitnext.com/tools/creat-pdf-bookmarklet.html

jacksoncarter• 16 years ago

Nice work. Doesn't work well with AJAX though.

arturadib• 16 years ago

Doesn't work with JavaScript.

Search Google for "browser testing" for some screenshot services that do.

RiderOfGiraffes• 16 years ago

How does this compare with htmldoc?

http://www.htmldoc.org/

adammichaelc• 16 years ago

Tried homevalueprotect.com Got back:

ABCpdf6.Doc.1 error '80004005'

Unable to render HTML. Unable to load page.

/index.asp, line 135

chunkyslink• 16 years ago

I got a blank pdf for www.engageinteractive.co.uk

johnrob• 16 years ago

I'd prefer a tool that did the exact opposite (without flash).

_delirium• 16 years ago

This is one option: http://pdftohtml.sourceforge.net/

apu• 16 years ago

I generally "print to pdf" if I want a pdf of a page, or use the firefox screengrab plugin to make png images of full page-length (super-awesome!):

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1146/

dangrossman• 16 years ago

Doesn't look anything like how a browser renders it. I'll just use a PDF print driver.

bokonist• 16 years ago

Not bad, needs more margins at the top and the bottom but otherwise looks quite good.

CreatePDF.in: My two hour website to pdf project

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