how can I convert all of the pages from a website to pdf?

Question

I need to make edits for a website developer / designer and he asked me to print all of the pages and make comments directly on them.

There are about 35 unique pages that I want to edit, although there are thousands that can be automatically generated from a database, but these are numbered sequentially. Thus, I would like to only download pages with an index of 1 in the address, e.g.,

It would be great if there were a bash solution that I could use, but Ruby would also work - the site is written in ruby, and the developer is good with ruby and bash and some other languages - so if you could give some suggestions to get us started, that would be great.

I want to print all pages in the server.com/ directory except, if the page is indexed by record, those with index > 1:

• server.com/records/
• server.com/records/1
• server.com/records/1/new

but not

• server.com/records/2
• server.com/records/2/new

or any pages with a ? in them like

• server.com/records?letter=K

and etc

Is there a simple, automated way that I could convert all of the pages to pdf?

Answer 1

wkhtmltopdf is an excellent tool that works nicely in Ubuntu

 wkhtmltopdf www.google.com foo.pdf
 xpdf foo.pdf

Answer 2

Normally I'd recommend good old Prawn, but now there's PDFkit that can use your HTML+CSS as-is.

There are good Railcasts on both PDFkit and Prawn

Answer 3

Here is a great article that can help you: http://jimneath.org/2009/02/16/creating-pdf-documents-in-ruby-on-rails/ You can also look at: princely :) https://github.com/drnic/princely

Good luck :)