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Creating a .PDF from a saved webpage

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I like to save webpages to my hard drive so that I can access them quickly- I use internet explorer for the job because Opera is IIRC crap for it. Anyway, IE creates a seperate folder with all the files associated with the proper viewing of that page- e.g. the images.

Now, I want to turn these pages into .PDFs, because it looks nicer. Using Acrobat 6.0 to do this ("create a .pdf from webpage" function)- it doesn't access the seperate folder, so I get useless pages with no images.

Doing it direct from the webpage doesn't work, because you have to login to view the webpage.

What am I missing?
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Post by phongn »

That looks like a bug in IE. Try saving the webpage a flat MHT file and then exporting to Acrobat. You could also try downloading Firefox and see if it works for your downloaded web pages.
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Doing it direct from the webpage doesn't work, because you have to login to view the webpage.
You can't log in anymore, or you can't get Acrobat to make one from the page once you're logged in?

I can make PDF's of pages like that and secure pages by just hitting the Acrobat button on the IE toolbar. If you don't have the button, enable 'Third Party Browser Extensions' under the 'Advanced' tab in IE options and restart the browser.
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For some reason Acrobat won't show up on IE even after enabling (it was already enabled too).

Acrobat doesn't support MHTs, unfortunately, though it is a convenient way to view the file.
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Try this:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/pdfcreator/
http://sector7g.wurzel6.de/pdfcreator/index_en.htm
On my computer, I just select print to file and run ps2pdf

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Post by Vympel »

Urk- the Acrobat .PDF thing was there- I was just too dumb to see it. Thanks ppl.

EDIT: bloody hell, webpages I wanted to convert are gone. Will try to use that program you linked to, Pu-239 ...
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