Questions Related To India-forum Website

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• [size="3"]The "print" option in this forum gives a printer-friendly single page (which is now combo of the first 50 pages of a thread).[/size]
• [size="3"]The printer-friendly page does not maintain the look-and-feel of the IF pages, which is as should be.[/size]
• [size="3"]Printing using a PDF printer driver (like the free Foxit PDF printer, PDF24, CutePDF writer, etc) converts a web page to PDF.[/size]

• [size="3"]If for some reason you need that IF "look-and-feel" too, I have found that using the above PDF printer drivers on a normal IF page makes that page come up also in a "printer-friendly" style PDF i.e. without the IF "look-and-feel".[/size]
• [size="3"]It is probably something to do with the complicated style-sheets etc. of the forum software -- the above drivers fail to produce a WYSIWYG (what-you[/size][size="3"]-[/size][size="3"]see[/size][size="3"]-[/size][size="3"]is[/size][size="3"]-[/size][size="3"]what[/size][size="3"]-[/size][size="3"]you[/size][size="3"]-get) PDF.[/size]

• [size="3"]Even using (non-free) Adobe Acrobat's 7.0's "Create PDF from web page" option gives quite a mangled WYSIWYG page. [/size][size="3"]Probably higher version of Acrobat work better, I don't know.[/size]

• [size="3"]However, there is one free PDF Printer driver I have found which gives the WYSIWYG effect : Winnovative Free HTML to PDF Converter.[/size]
• [size="3"]It created great PDFs of IF pages (but will have to be done one by one). It even maintains the hyperlinks, unlike the earlier listed drivers.[/size]