Hi Heather-
I use wkhtmltopdf[1] in our web crawling applications to capture a PDF
of a given page, as well as a screenshot.
If you had a list of all the pages you need to create PDFs of, you could
just iterate through it in a loop in a simple bash script just like we
do here[2].
Also, if it is the content that needs to be captured and there is a
chance you'll need some of the functionality, it might be worth
considering creating WARCs of each page.
-nruest
[1] http://wkhtmltopdf.org/
[2] https://github.com/ruebot/arxivdaleascii/blob/master/arxivdaleascii
On 14-11-10 02:31 PM, Heather Ryckman wrote:
> Apologies for cross-postings.
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> Happy Monday all!
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> Does anyone have any experience with any software that can reliably convert multiple HTML pages to a single PDF document? We have a bunch of online manuals that were created where each page was an html page. These manuals need to come to the Archives but conversion to PDF, one page at a time, is extremely time-consuming. Most of these manuals are hundreds of pages a-piece.
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> Has anyone else encountered a similar problem and have any recommendations on how to resolve the problem in an efficient way.
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> PS – The pages don’t have any functionality that needs to be preserved; it’s just the content that needs to be captured.
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> Thanks for any assistance that you can provide. Have a wonderful day!
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