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I am trying to capture my transcript from a webpage but there is no feature to capture all contents of the transcript. So I'm looking for a tool that can help save the entire webpage as a multi-page PDF rather than cutting it off after 1 page. So a webpage with a lot of content that requires scrolling down should be captured in multiple PDF pages.
btrballin
Posted 2016-01-21T04:31:14.543
Reputation: 175
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By default (on Chrome at least) you can press ctrl+p and change the printer to 'Save as PDF'.
If this doesn't work you'll want to install a PDF Writer installed to handle to 'printing' to PDF. I've always used a small, free simple one called CutePDF.
Install this, it should install drivers and appear as a printer.
Following the same steps as above, select 'CutePDF' as the printer and that should scale the website into a PDF.
Dandy
Posted 2016-01-21T04:31:14.543
Reputation: 342
I am aware of the ctrl+p feature but my concern is that this feature does not save the web page into a multi-page pdf. For example, if you go to Yahoo.com, you will notice that you can scroll down. If you wanted to capture the entire homepage into multiple pages, you can't use that feature to get it done. – btrballin – 2016-01-21T04:45:11.573
@btrballin I've just tried this on the 'Newest' questions page of this forum. This has made a 2-page PDF file which contains the full contents of the website. What do you mean by multi-page PDF? Am I misunderstanding your question? – Dandy – 2016-01-21T04:48:04.713
I think this website is more "modern" so it allows us to print all the contents of a scrollable web page here, but it doesn't work for the website where I can view my transcript. – btrballin – 2016-01-21T04:57:55.880
The browser is what controls this particular function. Not the compatibility of the website. Can you give me an example to investigate? – Dandy – 2016-01-21T04:58:45.837
Is it possible that the content of your transcript is in a frame? I've noticed a lot of educational sites do this. For some unknown reason, Chrome doesn't include "this frame" options by default. Maybe try this extension: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/print-this-frame/bamldpmhndfcingobhmkholjnkioglob?hl=en
– Brian Duddy – 2016-01-21T20:01:08.063
For such a situation, Acrobat's WebCapture function does exactly that. (normally, I try to do the other way; make the default page big enough that a single webpage will get onto a single PDF page…) – Max Wyss – 2016-01-21T07:24:10.307