Efficient pdf converting of a web page?

john2 · 8 Dec 2011, 01:49

I recently downloaded some vray tutorials from nomeradona’s blog. Now i want to convert the web pages that were saved to pdf files. I tried acrobat and dopdf7 to convert them but the result that i get is that of a white background with all the formatting lost. I want to make a pdf with the formatting preserved how can i do this?

these are the web pages [some of the ]

Tutorial: Grass and Rock Displacement in Vray SketchUp

Vray SketchUp does not support Proxy at the moment, unlike Vray 3dsMax. Creating realistic grass seems to be challenge still. In the past th...

(sketchupvrayresources.blogspot.com)

Nomeradona SketchUp VR

We share to the community different SketchUp and VRAY resources.

(sketchupvrayresources.blogspot.com)

Trogluddite · 8 Dec 2011, 06:58

Maybe PrimoPDF is worth a try. Has worked with most file types for me - it works as a 'virtual printer', and supposedly handles 300+ file types.
There's a free version that has always done everything I needed - download from HERE

john2 · 9 Dec 2011, 04:45

@trogluddite said:

Maybe PrimoPDF is worth a try. Has worked with most file types for me - it works as a 'virtual printer', and supposedly handles 300+ file types.
There's a free version that has always done everything I needed - download from HERE

i tried this it doesn't work, same white background pdf

watkins · 9 Dec 2011, 17:24

Try downloading a .pdf printer and printing to file.

SketchUp and Vray Resources_ Tutorial_ Grass and Rock Displacement in Vray SketchUp.pdf

john2 · 10 Dec 2011, 02:14

Eh..Watkins, it's still the white background and not the exact web page format, with black background and the exact formatting that I want the pdf to be.

Roidsan · 10 Dec 2011, 02:37

John2

I'm not sure this will help because I don't know that much about PDFs, but the only way to find out is to post it.

I make PDFs by pulling screen captures, moving them into PhotoShop and saving them as Photoshop PDF files. I've sent these "PDFs" out to friends and clients, and they seem to do the job, (they open on any computer, and can be printed) however I don't know how that would meet your requirements. I'm doing this on a Mac which is pretty easy. I can't tell you how to accomplish the same thing on a PC, the capture and put into Photoshop part, but I'm sure someone here can.

Good luck.

Lloyd

charly2008 · 10 Dec 2011, 13:35

Hi,

I used the free PDF Creator

SketchUp and Vray Resources_ Tutorial_ Grass and Rock Displacement in Vray SketchUp.pdf

john2 · 11 Dec 2011, 14:50

freeversion??

charly2008 · 11 Dec 2011, 15:07

YES!

watkins · 11 Dec 2011, 19:03

Do you mean this one?

PDFCreator

Download PDFCreator for free. Converts every printable document to PDF, JPG, PNG, TIF and more. PDFCreator creates professional PDFs with just a few clicks and it's free. PDFCreator comes with many professional features to merge documents, send emails, and more.

SourceForge (sourceforge.net)

Regards,
Bob

charly2008 · 11 Dec 2011, 23:18

Hi Watkins,

Yes it is.

Charly

irwanwr · 12 Dec 2011, 11:19

hello

would you like to check this link?
Gizmo Freeware Review: Best PDF Writer

if you are using Google Chrome, there's an extension that might be useful
Save as PDF

john2 · 23 Dec 2011, 04:34

@charly2008 said:

Hi,

I used the free PDF Creator

charly how are you able to get this?!! i tried pdf creator but im not able to get the same result as yours. i'm still getting the old white pdf. is there any setting that you do? What are the exact steps that you take to make a pdf? In google chrome i'm just right clicking and print and i get the pdf.

jeff hammond · 23 Dec 2011, 04:49

@john2 said:

@charly2008 said:

Hi,

I used the free PDF Creator

charly how are you able to get this?!! i tried pdf creator but im not able to get the same result as yours. i'm still getting the old white pdf. is there any setting that you do? What are the exact steps that you take to make a pdf? In google chrome i'm just right clicking and print and i get the pdf.

Charly's example is just a bunch of (rasterized) screenshot placed into a .pdf..
if you're ok with that then it opens up a lot more possibilities?

-with the 'white' pdfs you're making, you can keep zooming in and the text remains crisp because the font size is actually updating instead of simply zoom in on a rasterized font..
-you can select & copy/paste etc from the 'white' pdfs
-the links will remain active (if they're written in http:// form..)

zoom in on charly's pdf for comparison and you'll see the difference.