htmlpdfreference-manual

Export a WebHelp manual to a PDF file


I am learning to use a software package that only issues its manual as a web page, http://www.orcina.com/SoftwareProducts/OrcaFlex/Documentation/OrcFxAPIHelp/Default_Left.htm#StartTopic=html/Matlab_Introduction.htm
If I could convert the web manual to one PDF file, I would learn the package quicker since I could mark up the PDF with notes and underlines in Acrobat Pro. I tried printing each section out to an individual PDF then concatenating them into one PDF, but there are >100 sections so this is slow.
Is there a better way to convert the whole web manual document to a single PDF file, with the manual contents in the right order?


Solution

  • In acrobat pro, you should be able to open the web page directly and it'll convert the pages to PDF on the fly for you.

    ctrl+shift+O (oh, not zero, and that works in v9 and vX both)

    I believe you can also tell it to spider outward to a certain degree. Yep... only that's not working. I get a blank page. Looks like most of the content is filled in via script/ajax type stuff.

    Not a programming solution, but a solution none the less.

    wkHTMLToPDF will handle script, but I don't know if it'll do any spidering for you.