PDFpenPro 5 is the ability to create a PDF from HTML files or a web site.
Customers often ask for a printable copy of the help with our products. The help is initially created in HTML that can be indexed and viewed through Apple’s Help Viewer, and also viewed in a web browser. To print it, however, would mean going to every web page in the help and manually printing each one.
Here’s the PDFpen help HTML link, and here’s the PDFpen help PDF link.
Creating the PDF was very easy in PDFpenPro. Here’s how.. in PDFpenPro select File->New->From HTML…, then enter the URL for the index page, and how many levels deep to go. One level is the page itself. Two levels does the page and the links from that page. Two is just right for the help. Click Create and a PDF will be created from the given URL and its immediate links.
The links within the resulting PDF all operate, and even a table of contents is generated!
To finish the job I chose “Number Pages” from PDFpenPro’s Script menu, and then inserted a blank page at the start of the document and used it to place a title.
The new help PDF file can now be saved and printed with ease.