Documents with the PDF extension allow you to store, among other things, data from websites, including links and basic design styles. In this article, we will consider in detail the actual methods for saving site pages in this format.

There are only a few ways to duplicate the contents of a web page into a PDF file, which come down to using Internet browsers or a program for Windows. We will cover both options.

Method 1: Adobe Acrobat Pro DC

Software Adobe Acrobat is an the best remedy working with PDF files, allowing you to open and edit previously created documents. In our case, the program will also be very useful, since you can create a new PDF by downloading a web page from the Internet.

Note: All PDF creation features are paid, but you can use the free one. trial period or early version programs.

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1. Open Adobe Acrobat and c home page go to tab "Tools".



2. Click the caption icon "Create PDF".



3. Choose from the options provided "Webpage".



4. In field "Enter a URL or select a file" paste the link to the website page that you want to convert to a PDF document.



5. Check the box "Convert Multiple Levels" if you need to download several pages or the entire site .



6. Click on the link "Additional settings" to change the main parameters of the future PDF file.

   

   On the tab "Are common" you can select the settings for the conversion.

   

   Chapter "Page Layout" allows you to change the style of the site after importing it into a PDF document.



7. When finished, press the button "Create".

   

   In the window "Loading Status" You can track the process of downloading files from the Internet. Import speed depends on the number and complexity of elements on the site at the specified link.

   

   After that, the content downloaded and assembled within the PDF page will be presented.

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The main advantage of the method is that all links located on the loaded page remain operational. Moreover, all graphic elements are added without loss of quality.

Method 2: Web browser

Every modern Internet browser, regardless of the developer, allows you to use the built-in page printing tool. Also, thanks to this feature, web pages can be saved as PDF documents with the original design and arrangement of elements.

However, if you save in bookmarks not only regularly visited sites, but also one-day news or information that may or may not be useful later, then this section of the browser will eventually become cluttered. And it will be difficult to find the necessary bookmarks in it.

There are many alternatives for saving one-time publications, for example:

• note services,
• lazy read services,
• regular or built-in browser extensions for storing unused active tabs and sessions.

True, these methods are good only if you have access to the Internet. But there are solutions that allow you to store web pages in the local space of your computer, without the Internet - these are:

1. leave yourself a "memory" page in the form of an HTML file or
2. save a web page to a PDF document.

I would like to talk about the second method in more detail.

1. Why you should save a web page to PDF

Saving to PDF is the best way to capture a web page as it is in this moment, without any distortion.

This method can be used to, for example,

• fix social accounts of persons who can presumably delete from them important information.
• You can send statistical data from analytical resources to a PDF document.
• Even ordinary news publications can be saved to this file format so that they can be viewed from mobile or other devices at a convenient time, but when there is no Internet.

When saving in PDF format, the content of the web page is optimally distributed on a sheet with default parameters set to - A4 with portrait orientation- for ease of viewing in reader programs. If necessary, the default parameters can be changed to others that are more suitable for the reader on a particular device.

How is saving a web page in PDF format different from other options?

PDF is universal, its support is implemented on almost every device, in every operating system.

However, the web page can also

• save in html
• or from the page.

The PDF format outperforms the HTML format, first of all, by its versatility and the abundance of readers with different functionality.

And from screenshots that can be taken from web pages, a PDF file differs in that it can then be converted to Text Document if needed. It is known that converting from PDF to text is not always possible. Therefore, it is worth using such conversion methods that initially recognize the text material of sites, respectively, as text. Such methods are given for the Windows operating system below.

2. Print in browsers to save as PDF

Almost all web browsers (in other words, browsers) have their own built-in function for printing website pages. And within the framework of this function, the possibility of saving to PDF is provided.

2.1. PDF in Google Chrome

Rice. 1. Menu Google Chrome(three vertical dots) - Print an open web page

• Click the menu "Setting and managing Goggle Chrome" (1 in Fig. 1);
• click "Print" (2 in Fig. 1).

After that, “Print” opens through the Google Chrome browser (Fig. 2):

Rice. 3. Click "Edit" to find in Google browser Chrome option "Save as PDF"

The "Select Destination" dialog box will appear, in which you need to pay attention to the "Local Destinations" tab:

What can be corrected in the Google Chrome browser to save as PDF?

If the web page in the preview window is displayed incorrectly, you need to expand additional settings.

Rice. 5. Open the advanced settings of Google Chrome to save to PDF

And set the scale to 100% or another, more appropriate for the style of publications of a particular web resource.

Rice. 6. Scale and options for PDF format in Chrome browser

2.2. PDF in Microsoft Edge browser

In the operating room Windows system 10 there are even two such mechanisms:

1. described above (via Google Chrome browser) and
2. implemented with help from Microsoft Print to PDF.

The second is a regular virtual printer of the system, and its task is to provide the ability to save to PDF in any web browser, in any program that provides for printing.

It is believed that printing with the participation of a virtual printer creates a more informative version of the saved site page, displaying its metadata. Whereas the usual save to PDF function clears the page of unnecessary web elements to a greater extent and shifts the focus to the publication itself. How best is a matter of each individual case, but often both of these mechanisms work in exactly the same way.

How to use Microsoft Print to PDF? To do this, in Windows 10, open the built-in, regular browser Microsoft Edge:

Rice. 7. Microsoft Edge browser icon in Windows 10

After opening Microsoft Edge, you need to

• in the "Settings and more" menu (1 in Fig. 8)
• select the "Print" item (2 in Fig. 8):

Rice. 8. Print item in Microsoft Edge

If the computer does not use a real printer, then the virtual PDF printer is usually installed by default.

V otherwise click on the name of the connected printer. For an example, see below in Fig. 9, click on "HP LaserJet M1005". A drop-down menu will open, in which we select the “Microsoft Print to PDF” option from the list of available printing options:

Rice. 9. Microsoft Edge menu where you can select a real printer or a link to "Microsoft Print to PDF"

In Microsoft Edge, by the way, the printing mechanism involving a PDF printer is optimally configured. Here, in particular, the compression option to fit the web page is set by default. If other parameters do not require correction, you can click "Print" below:

2.3. PDF in Mozilla Firefox browser

Optimal Settings PDF printer provides and printing on board Mozilla Firefox.

• Click the "Open menu" button (1 in Fig. 11),
• then - "Print" (2 in Fig. 11):

Rice. 11. "Open Menu" - "Print" in Mozilla

In the "Print" window, you can set the parameters for saving a web page to PDF (Fig. 12):

• number of pages needed
• scale,
• portrait or landscape orientation
• and the very useful Simplify Page option, which removes unnecessary navigation elements from a web page. As a result, the pdf-document looks neat, "combed".

Rice. 12. Save a page as a PDF using Mozilla

If in Mozilla, the “Print” option has the name of the printer (in Fig. 13 it is the HP LaserJet M1005), but there is no PDF, then you need to

• click on the small triangle (1 in Fig. 13),
• select PDF in the drop-down list (2 in Fig. 13).

Rice. 13. Search PDF format in Mozilla

3. Two extensions for Google Chrome and Mozilla

Non-standard browser functionality can save website pages to PDF documents with two advantages:

1. in one click and
2. with an automatically generated file name.

The latter, by the way, cannot be done by the regular, built-in printing function. The Google Chrome and Mozilla Firefox stores have a lot of extensions for implementing a convenient way to convert web pages to PDF in these browsers, and the two suggested below are the most intelligent of them.

Extensions are downloaded from official stores, then installed in the browser. As a result, the icon of the installed extension appears on the toolbar in the browser at the top. Then, if necessary, you can open a web page, click on the icon of such an extension and save the page as a PDF document on your device.

3.1. PDF Mage Extension

PDF Mage implements on the panel chrome tools and a Firefox button that, when clicked, starts the process of creating a PDF from the contents of the current tab. The extension itself generates a file name in accordance with the name of the publication. Names are formed in Cyrillic.

If you install the PDF Mage extension in Google Chrome or Firefox browsers, the icon marked with the number 1 in Fig. 14.

• open the browser, and in it a web page,
• click on the PDF Mage icon (1 in Fig. 14),
• we look exactly where, in which folder the pdf will be saved,
• click "Save" (2 in Fig. 14).

Rice. 14. Save a Web Page Using the PDF Mage Extension in Google Chrome

3.2. Save as PDF extension

Save as PDF is similar to the previous extension. After installing it

• a button will also appear (Fig. 15) on the toolbar of Chrome and Firefox,
• also works in one click,
• also assigns names to files according to the titles of publications. But with the difference that the names are generated in Latin.

Rice. 15. Save as PDF extension in Mozilla to save as PDF

4. Three online services to save to PDF

4.1. PDFcrowd.Com

The Save as PDF extension discussed above was developed by the creators of the PDFcrowd.Com web service. You can use the services of this service when working with browsers that provide for the installation of extensions.

The principle of working with the service is simple: paste the copied link to the web page into a special field, click "Convert to PDF" and specify the path to save the file.

Rice. 16. PDFcrowd.Com service for saving to pdf file

There are several web services similar to the one discussed above, here are a couple more analogues.

4.2. Service PDFmyurl.Com

On the website of the PDFmyurl.Com service, paste the web page address into the field in the center and click "Save as PDF".

Rice. 17. The online service PDFmyurl.Com saves the page at its address to a PDF file

Output file names are automatically generated in Latin.

4.3. Service Htm2PDF.Co.Uk

We act in approximately the same way when working with the Htm2PDF.Co.Uk web service: insert the address of the desired page into the field in the center, click "Convert!", Then "Download your PDF".

Rice. 18. The online service Htm2PDF.Co.Uk at the address of the page saves it in PDF format

This service also generates file names itself, and also in Latin. It also has an extension for the Google Chrome browser, but it only works every other time. The online service itself is more stable in this regard.

5. Hot keys CTRL+P for all PDFs in all browsers

To save a web page to PDF, you can open it in any browser and press CTRL+P. Let me remind you how hot keys work: first, press the CTRL key, then without releasing it, simultaneously press the P key (in English case). After that, the “Print” window should appear on the screen, similar to the one shown in Fig. 2.

If you have a printer connected to your computer, then in the “Print” window you will have to click on the “Change” button (Fig. 3), which is located next to the name of your printer. A menu will open (Fig. 4), in which you need to check the box next to “Save as PDF”.

This universal way with hotkeys is good because it does not require additional installation for the browser software.

If you don't like the hotkey option, type in a search engine without quotes like this:

• “Extension Save to Opera PDF” or
• “Extension save to PDF Yandex Browser”.

The search engine will offer you extensions, of which it is better to choose options on the official websites of browsers. Installing the extension in the browser and further work with it are described, all extensions are arranged according to a similar principle.

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When searching for information on the Internet (you may be interested in the material Secrets of Searching the Internet), we sometimes come across an interesting web page that we immediately save to our bookmarks. Then the next time you can click on this bookmark and the page will load again, but this is provided that there is access to the Internet. But at the same time, we do not think that unlimited or traffic may end at the wrong time or there are problems on the part of the provider. So can such web pages be saved as a document on HDD your computer, and preferably in PDF format.

Or we just need to save the web page as a PDF. We begin to resort to various methods, for example, services with which you can take a screenshot of a page or application under Windows (FastStone Capture or Joxi). But there is an easier way - special plugins for your favorite browser Mozilla Firefox, Opera and Google Chrome (You may be interested in the material Secrets of Google Chrome). Under Internet Explorer, to be honest, I didn’t find it, or rather I didn’t look for it, since I don’t use it.

Saving a Web Page to PDF in Google Chrome Browser

What I like about Google Chrome is that this browser has a built-in function to save a web page to PDF format as well as advanced address bar options. And you don't need to install third party plugins. In order to use this function, you need to click on the Settings and Control Google Chrome - Print button (or the CTRL + P hotkeys).

In the print settings, you need to change the device type (section printer). In my case it's worth Canon printer LBP6000B. I change it to Save as PDF.

After that, you can save any page of the website you like in pdf format by clicking on the Save button. And if you make settings in the secret functionality of Google Chrome, then your capabilities will increase several times.

Saving a Web Page to PDF in Mozilla Firefox Browser

Unlike Google Chrome, which has a built-in function to save a page to PDF, Mozilla Firefox, unfortunately, does not have such a function. I hope the developers will improve this shortcoming in the future. But while the developers of the muffin are drinking tea, we can’t remain in trouble and discouraged. After all, there is a Printpdf plugin with which you can save a web page to PDF.

And for this you need to download it from this page by clicking on the Add to Firefox button. After that, you need to restart the browser and the function of saving in pdf format will become available to us. You can save a web page in pdf through the menu File - Print to PDF.

The Printpdf plugin can be configured to save images as well as header and footer sites. It does this through the menu Tool - Add-ons, Printpdf plugin settings.

Save web page to PDF in Opera browser

I don't want to ignore the Opera browser, as it has a similar plug-in that adds the ability to save a website page to PDF to Opera's arsenal. This extension is called Web2PDFConvert and can be downloaded from this page. Please download via Opera browser by clicking the Add to Opera button.

After the extension button will appear in top panel quick access, by clicking on which you can save the page in pdf. The page is converted into a document of the required format.

This is how you can save web pages as PDF in Mozilla browsers Firefox, Opera and Google Chrome without special applications and online services (playlist Useful online services on my channel). These extensions should be installed if you frequently use this feature. Since at in large numbers installed extensions, the browser becomes unwieldy, unnecessary operating system resources are used, and the browser takes a long time to load at startup. And in order to speed up and clean up excess debris operating system I use the CCleaner utility, and to optimize the performance of browsers, the Speedyfox utility.

If you plan to continue reading a web page offline or want to commit Current state content, you should save it.

To export a page with all its content to the device's memory, choose one of two formats: HTML or PDF. In the case of the first, it is saved as an HTML document and a folder with additional files. When choosing PDF, you get a single document with all the content.

In most situations, it is more convenient to work with a PDF file. It can be annotated in special readers and is easier to share with other people.

Using the standard browser function

Many popular browsers allow you to save pages as PDF files through the print menu. Enter it, being on the desired page, using the combination Ctrl + P. After that, find the save to PDF function in the menu that opens and use it. The browser will not print anything, it will only save the PDF file to your computer.

Print menu in Google Chrome

This method is not without drawbacks. For example, web pages are often saved without links or with broken formatting. If this is critical for you, use any suitable web service.

In a special service

There are many sites on the web that allow you to save web pages as PDF files. Here are just a few of them: Webpage to PDF, Free HTML to PDF Converter, Pdfcrowd, Online PDF Converter, Online-Convert.

They all work pretty much the same. Open any service, paste the link to desired page in its text field and click on the download button. After that, the service will save the PDF file on the device.

The markup of pages converted in this way may differ from the original. But basic formatting, as well as images and links, are preserved. In addition, such services can be used both on a computer and on a mobile device.