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Importing Web Sites into PDF
 

Step one:

You can import full websites into Acrobat and convert them to PDF documents to view them offline at a later date. It is most useful for people who travel a lot or use web pages in presentations. By importing Websites into Acrobat, you don't have to worry about Internet access to view your website. All the links you import will work the same way as on a webpage.
 

Step two:

In Acrobat, click Tools > Web Capture > Open Web Page


 

Step three:

Type in the name of your website in the URL box.


 

Step four:

Web pages work on a hierarchal system. Imagine a web like a tree. The root is the webpage you are capturing using Acrobat. All the links on that webpage are its branches, or the first level. All links from these first level web pages are the sub-branches or the second level, and so forth.

The next step in capturing a webpage is to specify how many levels you would like to capture. You can either specify the number of levels or Get Entire Site.

Beware that when getting entire site, you can make the size of the file VERY large, depending on which server you are getting it from. Make sure you know how many pages there are on the site you want to capture.

 

Step five:

Checking Only Get Pages Under Same Path imports only the pages under the same path as the URL.

Similarly, checking Stay on Same Server, imports pages only from the same server as the URL.
 
    Click Download.
    Depending on how many levels you selected, and how big the website is, it might take a few minutes.


 
    The webpage opens up as a PDF document, with all the links as bookmarks. The webpage, like any other PDF document can be edited and formatted as required. It also works exactly like a webpage, and the links are active to the number of levels you specified.


 
    If you click on a link on a webpage that points to a level you haven't downloaded on to your PDF, a window like the one below.



If you opt to open the Weblink in Acrobat, that page is also downloaded on to your PDF and added on as a bookmark. If you open it using a web-browser, Acrobat opens the page in your default web browser (Internet Explorer or Netscape Navigator). The page is NOT added to your PDF.
Click OK.
 
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