HTML to PDF

How to turn a web page into a PDF

There are two different things people mean by this, and it is worth knowing which one you want.

1. Save the page from your browser, or copy its HTML.
2. Drop the .html file here, or paste the markup into the box.
3. Check what it found, and what it dropped.
4. Press Make the PDF and save it.

This keeps what the page says, not how it looked

A web page's appearance lives in its stylesheets, its fonts and often its scripts, all of which are separate files somewhere on the web. Reproducing the look would mean going and getting them - this page making requests on your behalf - and that is the one thing this site promises never to do.

So the furniture goes: navigation, sidebars, headers, footers, forms, scripts and anything the page marks as hidden. Where the page says which part is the main article, that part is kept and the rest is dropped. What you get is the writing, set as a document.

If you want it to look exactly as it does on screen

Your browser already does that, and does it better than any website could, because it is the thing that drew the page in the first place. Press Print and choose Save as PDF. That is not a workaround, it is the right tool, and saying so is more use to you than a worse imitation of it.

Pictures

A picture stored inside the file itself comes across. One that lives at an address on the web is left out and counted, for the same reason as above. A page saved from a browser as a single file usually carries its pictures inside it; one saved as a folder usually does not.