I was at my parents’ place for our regular Sunday dinner, which is another way to say our weekly tech support session.
My father asked me if there was an easy way to take my DocumentSnap articles (hi Dad) and other web pages and save them as PDF. I told him I’d look into an easy way to do it that would work on all his devices.
As usual, the DocumentSnap community did my work for me and the very next morning, awesome reader John sent in a tip for a free web service called Print Friendly.
At its simplest, Print Friendly has a big box on their website where you can paste in the address for any web page you want to convert to PDF.
When you hit the print preview button, you get a nice window that lets you print the page, save it as PDF, or email it to someone.
Because this is happening in the browser, it should work on pretty much any device. Here it is on iOS – you don’t need any special app or anything. You can generate a PDF and the save it wherever you normally would save PDFs.
If you don’t want to bother with copying and pasting the URL, there is a bookmarklet that you can put in your browser that will let you create a PDF from whatever page you are viewing.
I like these little tools that do what they do and do it well. If you find yourself wanting to save pages as PDFs for whatever reason, Print Friendly is not a bad way to do it.
