Looking for a great way to offer a PDF version of your pages to your site visitors? Then you might try linking up pdfMyUrl to your site.
This can be as simple at providing a link on your page like the following:
<a href=”http://pdfmyurl.com/?url=exhibita.com/blog/”>download this page as a pdf</a>
will create a link that looks similar to the following:
You’ll find a full list of parameters that you can set on the PDF generation to do things like set the paper orientation, size, headers, footers and more by following the directions on their site. They even do a good job of preserving links within the generated PDF. It appears they are even smart enough to disregard links that come in via ads as the AdWords links shown below aren’t hyperlinked while the links within my site all work. My guess is that they are disregarding links that are delivered to the site via client-side javascript as other external links (like my blogroll) seem to work fine as well. Of course this behavior can be controlled by setting options when you request the PDF by using the options shown on their website.
As with any service, you should TRY IT FIRST against the site you intend to use it on to ensure that you get the results you desire. The relatively complex formatting on my site workd fine EXCEPT for the headlines on each article, which you’ll see are all squished up in the example shown at right.
If you find this useful, or if you have a better tool to use, feel free to leave us a relevant message in the comments below.
At Over The Top and Exhibit A Communications, I've programmed solutions for Google as well as at least one other company that was later acquired by Google.
I've been CTO of an Internet SaaS company and spent my time pretty evenly between guiding the future technical strategy of the company, architecting software solutions for my dev teams, designing and running a data center to service our clients world-wide as well as being a technical evangalist/sales engineer to our media clients large and small.
I've also been Chief Photographer of the Daily Sun/Post newspaper back when it was a 5-day a week daily newspaper.
I also spent a great many years as a beach lifeguardfor the City of San Clemente as well as Jr. Lifeguard instructor and then as it's program coordinator.
Bragging rights
Private Pilot with Instrument rating and proud husband of soon to be 25 years (and counting).
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