So you are on your iPhone, iPad, or (I think?) Android device, and you want to save the web page or e-mail to PDF.
If you are using Google apps like the Google Chrome browser for iOS, or the Gmail app for iOS, Google makes this easy using their Google Cloud Print and Google Drive services.
(I assume this is all more built-in with Android, but my Android device is stuck on Gingerbread so I can’t test it properly).
I’ll show you how it works with Chrome, but it is similar in the Gmail app.
Let’s say I am viewing a web page, and I want to save it to PDF. I tap on the little menu icon up near the top.
I then choose the Print option. I could send this to a printer, but obviously I cannot condone such behavior.
I then choose Google Cloud Print, as that is what will be doing all the work.
From there, if I had printers and other devices set up I could send to those, but in our case I want to choose Google Drive so that it will save it as a PDF.
After I choose this, I hit Save on the next screen.
In a few seconds, voila. The PDF appears both in my Google Drive account and, since I am running the Google Drive application on my computer, it magically appears on my computer.
If you live in the Google ecosystem, this Cloud Print feature can be really handy. How do you save PDFs on your mobile device?
(Photo by Reeda)