[ale] [OT] how do I convert this web based book to pdf or doc

James Sumners james.sumners at gmail.com
Fri Feb 1 14:08:43 EST 2013


True. But that would be a lot of tedious work to print each every HTML
document to a PDF. The tools make it easier to do in (mostly) one
shot.

On Fri, Feb 1, 2013 at 2:02 PM, JD <jdp at algoloma.com> wrote:
> If you can print a document from any program, then you can print it directly
> into PDF on either Windows or Linux using a PDF printer driver.  This has been
> available for PDF since the beginning.
>
> There are a number of Free PDF drivers for Windows, in addition to the expensive
> commercial versions from Adobe (which nobody needs).  For Linux, there is a free
> PDF driver too - it shows up in CUPS. I don't recall how to make it happen, but
> it is easier than pretty much any printer driver to get working, IMHO.


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