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Creating PDF Files 3

Web Capture

Acrobat (and Acrobat Business Tools) can also convert web pages to PDF files. This is particularly useful to gather up an entire website into a single document, while controlling the page layout to a certain extent. All hyperlinks will be preserved, and external pages can be added to the PDF at a later time.

  • Click the web-capture button in Acrobat and type in a URL
  • choose how many levels of pages to capture (e.g. two levels would be the original page plus everything it links to directly)
  • decide whether you want only local pages included or whether to follow links pointing to another directory or server
  • specify your desired page layout (margins, header, footer)
  • choose what HTML tags should cause sub-bookmark creation

Once all the pages have been captured, the bookmarks pane will show a link per page. You can have Acrobat refresh the page for you at a later time, i.e. re-capture the page if it has changed on the server.


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last updated: 2004-02-04— Instructional Technology Lab