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Preserve a Web Page as a PDF

Round these parts, I frequently need to share Web pages with co-workers. Sometimes it's fine just to send a link, but occasionally it's critical to freeze a moment in time. Sending a link is dicey, because the page could change before anyone sees what I had intended to show. Sure, I could take a screenshot, but that only captures part of the page at a time. What I need is a way to make a PDF out of the entire page.


Web2PDF Converter is an add-on for Firefox that converts a Web page into a PDF file. To use it, just open the page you want to save and then click the Web2PDF toolbar button. The page is converted and saved online. Then click a link provided in your browser to download the PDF to your PC.

Don't use Firefox? No problem. You can go directly to the Web2PDF Web site and enter the URL of the page you want to save.

Finally, if you're a Windows Vista or Windows 7 user, you have an even easier option: You can save a Web page as an XPS document instead. XPS, of course, is Microsoft's PDF-like document format, and you can print to an XPS document from any program, including your Web browser. As long as everyone else can read your XPS doc, it's faster and easier than installing an add-on or visiting an extra Web site.

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