Save Webpages to PDF: Easy & Quick Steps

I. Why save web pages as PDF

When looking for information on a webpage, the content of the webpage may contain a lot of information that we want to view and save. In order to use the charts and information in it more conveniently in the future, the best solution is to save the webpage as a PDF file. There are many advantages to saving a webpage as a PDF, such as being able to read the content of the webpage offline, and being able to extract data tables or other available information. In addition, using the PDF file format can facilitate you to share the content of the web page with others. PDF files are easy to open and print. It is not affected by the operating system and can be opened directly on Windows, Mac, Linux and other platforms. Therefore, PDF documents can be opened and viewed on any device or in any browser without downloading any software.

The method of creating a PDF file is very simple, whether it is created from a web page or a document such as Word. The easiest way to quickly save a webpage as a PDF is to save the webpage as a PDF in your browser.

What are PDF files?

PDF (short for Portable Document Format, meaning “Portable Document Format”) is a file format developed by Adobe Systems for file exchange in a manner independent of applications, operating systems, and hardware. To create a PDF file, you can create it from within Adobe Acrobat, Microsoft Word, or similar software. PDF files are one of the most popular file formats for sharing digital files on the Internet. Publications or forms published online are usually saved in PDF format. PDF documents can be opened directly on Windows, macOS, Linux and other operating systems, with strong compatibility. This format file can contain electronic information such as hypertext links, sounds and dynamic images, and has a high degree of integration, security and reliability.

II. How to convert a web page to PDF using a browser

Available in most browsers, this feature is the fastest and most efficient way to save a web page as a PDF. Although you can save a web page using the “Save As” feature, this option saves the page in web format, not as a PDF file. The following will introduce the methods of converting web pages to PDF in several commonly used browsers.

1. Google Chrome

If you want to convert a web page to PDF, you can do it with Google Chrome browser. You can save a webpage as a PDF using the “Print” function in Google Chrome. Although this method is convenient, its conversion effect will be worse than that of professional PDF conversion software. In fact, the Chrome browser has always included a large number of excellent auxiliary tools, and saving as PDF is just one of them.

① Open the webpage to be converted in Google Chrome browser. Click the three-dot icon in the upper right corner of the Chrome browser interface to open the Settings menu, then click the (Print) option from the drop-down menu. You can also use the shortcut (Ctrl + P) on a Windows computer, or (Command + P) on a Mac to bring up the print menu.

② In the newly opened “Print” window, you can customize the PDF output settings. Select (Save as PDF) on the (Destination Printer) option. You can choose to save all pages or some pages as PDF on the (web page) option, and make more detailed settings on “Layout” and “More Settings”. After the settings are complete, click (Save) to select the location to save the converted PDF file.

2. Microsoft Edge browser

Microsoft Edge is a browser developed by Microsoft and announced on January 21, 2015. The browser replaced Internet Explorer as the default browser in Windows 10 and Windows 10 Mobile, and IE in Windows 10 Mobile has also been removed. You can save web pages as PDFs using the print function in this browser.

① Open the webpage to be converted in Microsoft Edge. Click (Ctrl + P) on a Windows computer, or (Command + P) on a Mac computer to bring up the print menu.

② In the opened dialog box, please select (Microsoft Print to PDF) under “Printer”. In addition, you can set the orientation, zoom size, margin or header and footer of the PDF file according to your needs. Finally, click (Print) to convert the web page to PDF.

3. Firefox browser

Firefox is a free and open source browser that is small in size and fast in operation. Firefox is one of the most popular web browsers, and many people use it to find information or browse content. The browser can provide many advanced functions, such as pinyin checking, private browsing, etc., and users can also customize the function menu and appearance of Firefox by adding components and customizing functions. In the Firefox browser, its built-in feature helps you quickly convert web pages to PDF files.

① Open the webpage to be converted in the Firefox browser, then click the (Open Menu) button in the upper right corner, find the (Print) option in the menu option bar and open it.

② In the pop-up print preview window, you can see the webpage preview page and the print setting menu above. In it, you can set the page, such as page scale size, printing direction and so on. After the setting is complete, click (Print) and select (Microsoft Print to PDF) > (Print). Finally, in the pop-up Save As window, select the save location of the PDF file and rename the file. After clicking (OK), the file will be automatically saved to the computer.

4. Safari browser

If you are using a Mac computer, the Safari browser built into the Mac operating system can be used to convert web pages to PDF, which is the most convenient conversion method. Safari offers the ability to save and print webpages in PDF format without using another application. It is relatively simple to use the Safari browser to convert webpages, please refer to the introduction below for details on how to operate.

① First, please open the webpage to be converted in the Safari browser.

② On the top menu, click (File) > (Export as PDF), so that the current web page content can be saved as a PDF file.

III. Use a professional web page to PDF conversion tool

In addition to using a browser to convert web pages, you can also use professional PDF conversion software or online conversion tools to convert them to PDF.

1. Adobe Acrobat DC

Adobe Acrobat DC is an electronic word processing software developed by Adobe Corporation that can be used to create, edit, export, organize, share or sign PDFs. This software provides a variety of practical PDF tools. With the “Create PDF” tool, you can easily convert HTML web pages to PDF. In addition, Adobe Acrobat DC supports converting Word, Excel, PNG, JPG, TXT and other files to PDF. As the most professional PDF editing tool, this software has also developed different versions of software for different terminal devices, so that both computer and mobile terminals can use it to complete operations such as creating and editing PDF files. It should be noted that this software is not free, and the purchase price of Adobe Acrobat DC software will be much higher than other PDF editing software.

Supported Operating Systems: Windows, macOS, iOS, Android, Windows Phone

① First download, install and open the Adobe Acrobat DC software, click the (Tools) option on the upper left of the software interface, and then select the (Create PDF) function to enter.

② After entering the function of creating PDF, click (Webpage), you can enter the URL in the input box or select an HTML file on your computer, and then click (Create). Then click the (Save) button to open the “Save As” window, then choose the save location and name the output PDF file, and finally click (Save).

2. Web2PDF

If you don’t like using your browser to convert web pages to PDF, you can try an online conversion tool. Web2PDF is a web-based conversion tool that provides various PDF conversion functions, such as web page to PDF and JPG to PDF. Its interface is very simple, only a URL box and a conversion button, you can enter a web page URL to convert to PDF. Web2PDF is free, you don’t need to register and download to use it. It should be noted that when converting, you can only convert the entire webpage to PDF, not just specific pages of the webpage.

Online conversion link: https://www.web2pdfconvert.com/

3. PDFmyURL

PDFmyURL is an online conversion tool that can be used to create PDFs from URL or HTML files. In this conversion tool, you can choose to make some settings and adjustments to the output PDF file. In addition to basic page settings, you can also set file watermarks, rights management, conversion settings, scale settings, etc. The conversion tool supports batch conversion. You can upload a group of URLs or web pages for conversion, and you can get a compressed Zip file package after the conversion is completed, which can help you save waiting time for downloading.

Online conversion link: http://pdfmyurl.com/

① Open the PDFmyURL conversion link in the browser, and then enter the URL link in the input box. If you want to adjust PDF pages, you can click (Options) to enter the settings.

② Finally, click (Save as PDF) to start converting the webpage, and it will be downloaded to your computer automatically after the conversion is completed.

IV. How to convert PDF to webpage and edit PDF files

If you need to convert PDF to webpage/HTML, then you can continue to view the introduction below. Whether it is converting PDF or editing PDF, it is recommended that you use the most simple and easy-to-useRenee PDF Aide software. This software can provide a variety of PDF editing tools with relatively complete functions and simple operation, which is suitable for different groups of people.

1. Convert PDF to web page

In addition to converting web pages to PDF, sometimes it is also necessary to convert PDF files to HTML web pages. The best way to convert PDF to HTML is to use Renee PDF Aide . Compared with other conversion software, its conversion effect is very good. Renee PDF Aide is a full-featured PDF conversion and editing software with a simple software interface and very simple conversion operations. When converting PDF to HTML, the conversion efficiency can be as high as 80 pages per minute. The software also supports conversion to other file formats, including Excel, PowerPoint,ePub , Text, HTML, Image formats. The software’s built-in OCR text recognition function can help you quickly identify scanned PDF files or image content and convert them into editable document formats. Moreover, this PDF converter tool is perfectly compatible with all versions of Windows computers, such as Windows 10, 8.1, 8, 7, Vista and XP.

① After installing Renee PDF Aide, open it. Select (Convert PDF).

②Click (HTML), and then set the save location of the converted document.

③ Click the (Add File) button to add the PDF file to be converted. After the file is successfully added, the information of the file to be converted will be displayed in the conversion list, click (select page) to set the page for file conversion.

④ After the setting is complete, click the (Convert) button to convert. When the prompt conversion is over, the software will display the total number of converted files and the number of successfully converted files. At this time, the PDF file has been successfully converted into an HTML file.

2. PDF file editing

Sometimes we need to edit PDF files, then you can also use Renee PDF Aide to edit. This software provides a variety of commonly used editing functions such as repair, optimization, split, rotate, encryption, decryption, etc., to help you quickly edit files. After you download and install Renee PDF Aide, open it. Then please click to enter the (PDF Toolset) column. In the function menu bar at the top, you can select any function to perform personalized editing operations on PDF files. The software supports batch import, you can edit multiple files at the same time, and the specific operation steps are very simple.