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August 6, 2023
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Web Page To PDF

  • August 6, 2023
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Hello Everyone,

 

My question is regarding turning web pages to pdf.

 

I send out a local neighborhood newsletter by email. There are about 40 recipients. The contents are events happening in our area, crimes, road construction, etc. Sometimes the contents come from local newspapers and are time sensitive. I have tried using Acrobat numerous times to grab the web pages of the newspapers but the results are always severely flawed. So as a workaround I use SnagIt to capture a screenshot of the web page and save it as a PNG or JPG. Then I use Acrobat to convert it into one long image PDF.

 

The problem is that when I send that out in email, a few of the email recipents receive the email very delayed, sometimes hours. Apparently email antivirus scanners like CloudFlare view Image Only PDF's as potential virus carriers and put the email into a queue for scanning and it takes some time to percolate through.

 

I have tried avoiding PDF altogether and just send out the PNG or JPG as attachment, but again it gets shoved into the Cloud Flare scanning queue and also many recipients cannot figure out that they need to expand the image and scroll.

 

I have also tried dropping in text to the image to make it more pallatable to the scanners, but that does not seem to change anything.

 

The newspapers as a direct link generally provide scrambled results. Even when the link is a gifted article, you usually have to jump through hoops of multiple ads to the point that most people get disgusted.

 

I could save all the articles to cloud server and include links to the articles in the email, but many people are terrified to click on any links in email for fear they are going to get a virus payload.

 

So, how can I grab articles from webpages and turn them into pdf without all of the above problems.

 

Thank you.

 

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Correct answer try67

Thanks for the reply.

 

I checked the 5 newspapers that usually provide articles for my area.

3 of them do as you detailed and include all images.

1 includes only some of the images, I don't know why they select some not all.

1 does not include any images.

So if I want to add the images back to the pdf, can I insert them back into their postion and will Acrobat re-paginate ? Or do I need to add blank pages at the end of the article (How do I do that), and add the images there?

 

Thanks.


No. Acrobat does not re-paginate when you insert an image into an existing PDF file. You can insert it as a completely new page somewhere in the middle, though. Basically, simply dragging the image file into the Pages panel in Acrobat and dropping it in the desired location is all you need to do.

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try67
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try67Community Expert
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August 6, 2023

Most newspapers' websites have a Print button on each page that generates a simplified (usually text-only) version of the article. Use that and the Adobe PDF virtual printer, and you should be good to go...

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quaerere scientiamAuthor
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August 6, 2023

Dear try67,

 

Thank you for your reply and your good suggestion.

 

I have attached 3 files to this reply post to illustrate my next question.

 

The PNG is from a SnagIt screen grab and the first PDF is a conversion from that screen grab. Other than the problems mentioned in my first post and some unsharpness it is exactly the same as the PNG.

 

There was no print button on the article, so I used my browser Print menu item and chose Adobe as the printer device.

The text is sharper because it is actual text and not a rasterized image and of course the file is smaller and broken up into pages. But here is my question, for those articles where the images are important to the article such as showing a road under construction or a suspect in a local crime from a surveillance image, how can I re-insert the images (lets say I screenshot them as jpg's) into the pdf ?

 

Thank you.

try67
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try67Community Expert
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August 6, 2023

If you use the browser's built-in Print command it should include everything on the page, including images, comments, etc.

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