PDF Online, a free service that lets you convert any document or image to PDF files, today released a perfect PDF printing widget that will immediately appeal to most bloggers and site owners.
As mentioned before, visitors to your website can now save your blog articles and web pages as PDF files at the click of a button - the HTML web page will be converted in real time by the PDF Online conversion engine.
Implementation is child's play - you just have to insert a small Javascript snippet in your Blog template or web pages. Check a live demo by clicking the "Save as PDF" button at the top right corner of our India website.
If you are using IE or Firefox, you will be asked to save or open the PDF file. If you are using Safari browser, the PDF will show up inside the browser window.
What makes this service more attractive than the HP PDF Printing Widget is that it will keep a track of all the PDF conversion activities in your site real-time - it can serve as a good metric to measure the importance of your site contents.
My only concern with the Web2PDF widget is that the hyperlinks on the web page are lost in PDF translation. Wishlist includes scheduled email reports of PDF conversions.
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Find this article at: http://labnol.blogspot.com/2007/07/print-to-pdf-button-for-your-blog-and.html
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Reader Comments
Hi Amit,
I'm a little confused by the terms and conditions of using the print to pdf widget, esp. the following:
"License of Your Content to Provider. By uploading content to, submitting any materials for use on the Web Site, you grant (or warrant that the owner of such rights has expressly granted) Provider a perpetual, royalty-free, irrevocable, non-exclusive right and license to use, reproduce, modify, adapt, publish, translate, create derivative works from and distribute such materials or incorporate such materials into any form, medium, or technology now known or later developed throughout the universe."
Does it mean that the copyright for any webpage converted to pdf using their services rests with them? Dang, I knew I should've done that law course:-)
Cheers
Cherian
Written on 14/7/07 5:13 PM
Amit,
Wow, that is a really useful widget! I haven't seen anything like it before, but it definitely fills a need.
By the way, since you're into widgets, I just thought that I'd encourage you to check out our AutoRoll widget which recommends similar blogs within the AutoRoll network.
If you get a chance to check it out, then please feel free to let me know what you think!
Brandon Watts
Criteo Evangelist
Written on 14/7/07 6:08 PM
That was a great widget. But I am having problems.
I used the javascript code provided by pdfonline and did implement on my blog. As a result when I clicked on the button to test if its working, it did generate a pdf file but with some "design error". The pdf file was all scrwd up and had the content all going awry.
I did try to implement the code you have given in printer friendly pages article http://labnol.blogspot.com/2006/08/blogger-hacks-how-to-enable-printer.html but to no avail?
The areas which I wanted not to get printed were also being printed.
I guess once I implement the code given by you n then implement the code given by pdfonline then I should get proper pdf files with no unwanted material??
but that isn't happening...??
could you please help me out?
Written on 14/7/07 6:26 PM
Hi Amit,
Being a regular reader of your site, I do get a lot of useful ideas. Thanks for that.
Implementing "print to pdf" was a breeze.
It functions nicely at my english website, but fails at UTF-8 Hindi website. Any other alternative available, like "send to image"?
Thanks
Ravi Mishra
http://addskills.blogspot.com/
Written on 14/7/07 11:01 PM
I just now checked Ravi's article and tried that widget out. There also same problems.
I guess he too needs to read that printer friendly pages article. If he can implement it well. I failed...??
Written on 15/7/07 8:38 AM
Hi, thank you for the feedbacks. About our terms, we agree that the current language is a little imposing so we will revise that. In the current form we assure you that it is not meant to give us copyright.
Also, we will add support for more languages, so hang in there :)
Hanyen
Written on 17/7/07 10:50 PM