How to Save a Website/Webpage To PDF

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Quick tip. Ever wonder how to save a website/webpage to a PDF file? You might have several reasons to save a web page to PDF, for example, you need to print the page, but you don't have access to a printer on that moment, so by saving the web page to a PDF file, you can print it later, or you just simply want to save the useful article so you can read it afterward. One of the simplest method to save a webpage to PDF is by using a PDF virtual printer.

There are lots of application for converting documents into Portable Document Format (PDF) format. For this purpose, I highly recommend you to use PDFCreator. PDFCreator is a free tool to create PDF files from nearly any Windows application. PDFCreator allows you to create PDF documents from any program that is able to print, including web browsers. PDFCreator is free and open source.

1. First, you need to download and install PDFCreator. You can install PDFCreator using its default options.

2. After you've installed PDFCreator, you need to run PDFCreator application first (Go to Start Menu > All Programs > PDFCreator > PDFCreator).

3. Open the webpage that you want to save to PDF in your favourite web browser. On you web browser, click File > Print. Choose 'PDFCreator' (1) as the printer to print.

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4. A dialog from PDFCreator will appeared. Click 'Save' (2) to save the web page to PDF. Choose the location where you want to store the PDF file. You've successfully saved a web page to a PDF file!

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Tips: If the web page has the option to show a printer-friendly version page, you should save this page as PDF, not the original one. A printer-friendly version usally looks better.

PDFCreator is freeware and open source. PDFCreator is available for Microsoft Windows.

[Download: PDFCreator]

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