How to convert a Webpage to PDF

If you are working in a digital environment, you may need to share a web page with your teammates. In most cases, passing a link is enough, but you need to convert web pages to PDF format for offline sharing or for the records keeping purposes. The webtopdf.com service can solve these problems. You can manually create high quality PDF documents from any URL in your browser and it comes with a variety of conversion options built in.

How to use?

With our online converter, you can capture full scrollable webpages instead of taking several screenshots which need to be merged afterward. Let’s take a look at how to save a webpage as a PDF, step-by-step.

Open HTML web page on your preferred browser and copy the URL.
On our website, navigate to our Webpage to PDF converter tool.
Paste the URL you want to convert in the text box.
To change your default conversion settings, click the "Options" button.
Click the 'Convert' button.
Download your exported webpage.

The sections below describe all the options available when converting web pages to PDF or images. The default settings are optimized for commonly used 'A4' page sizes.

Page Settings

When you change a web page to PDF or an image, there are several options you can change to control page settings. The value you set determines the layout of the PDF.

Page size

We allow you to use all major standard page formats for the page size of your PDF. These are listed in the table below, with their corresponding dimensions. The default page format is 'A4'.

Page format	Dimensions
A0	841 x 1189 mm, 33.1 x 46.8 in
A1	594 x 841 mm, 23.4 x 33.1 in
A2	420 x 594 mm, 16.5 x 23.4 in
A3	297 x 420 mm, 11.7 x 16.5 in
A4	210 x 297 mm, 8.3 x 11.7 in
A5	148 x 210 mm, 5.8 x 8.3 in
A6	105 x 148 mm, 4.1 x 5.8 in
A7	74 x 105 mm, 2.9 x 4.1 in
A8	52 x 74 mm, 2.1 x 2.9 in
A9	37 x 52 mm, 1.5 x 2.1 in
B0	1000 x 1414 mm, 39.4 x 55.7 in
B1	707 x 1000 mm, 27.8 x 39.4 in
B2	500 x 707 mm, 19.7 x 27.8 in
B3	353 x 500 mm, 13.9 x 19.7 in
B4	250 x 353 mm, 9.8 x 13.9 in
B5	176 x 250 mm, 6.9 x 9.8 in
Folio	210 × 330 mm, 8.5 × 13 in
LEDGER	432 x 279 mm, 17.0 x 11.0 in
LEGAL	216 x 356 mm, 8.5 x 14.0 in
LETTER	216 x 279 mm, 8.5 x 11.0 in
TABLOID	279 x 432 mm, 11.0 x 17.0 in
Custom size	You can set up a personalized page by manually adjusting the horizontal and vertical values. Values from 100 to 1500 are valid. The figures are in millimeters.

Orientation

Page orientation is the direction in which a document is displayed or printed. The two basic types of page orientation are portrait (vertical) and landscape (horizontal). Most monitors have a landscape display, while most documents are printed in portrait mode. The default orientation is typically portrait, but you can change it to landscape if you want the width to be longer than the height.

Margins

You can set the left, top, right, and bottom margin dimensions in mm (millimeters). Values from 0 to 100 are valid.

Zoom

Zoom into or out of a page before the conversion. Values from 10% to 200% are valid.

Header and Footer

You can add headers and footers to the entire page. The same applies to all pages.

Rights Management

When converting web pages to PDF, you can use the encryption (also known as PDF rights management) settings in the table below. If you choose to convert the image to a non-PDF image, it will not be applied.

Setting	Description
Password	Password needed to open the PDF file
Disallow Extract	Prevent users from extracting the PDF file
Disallow Print	Prevent users from printing the PDF file

Conversion Settings

The table below shows the settings that you can change to control the conversion process. These will largely determine the content of the resulting PDF file.

Setting	Description
Convert Type	Supported file types for conversion include PDF, JPG, PNG, GIF, and TIFF
Use Print Layout	Use the print-friendly layout (CSS media type 'print') if the web page has one.
Remove JavaScript	Convert the page with JavaScript switched off
Remove Link	Do not show hyperlinks in the PDF
Add page Number	All pages are numbered in the lower right corner. Available at the same time as the header footer.
Convert to grayscale	Apply grayscale to the conversion process
Auto Bookmark	Include bookmarks in the PDF for the <h1> through <h4> tags in the webpage
Wait Time	Determine the minimum wait time in second to load a page. Some web pages dynamically create content with script. In order to capture an output that is as accurate as how the page would look to the end user, the converter waits for a short period of time before rendering the PDF output after it has finished loading. This gap gives the page some time to execute its intialization script. The default value is 8, while values between 4 and 30 are valid.

Watermarking

You can add a watermark. The table below shows the settings you can change to control watermarking. The same applies to all pages. If the watermark text is blank, no watermark is applied.

Setting	Description
Text	Text to apply to watermarking. If this value is blank, watermarking is ignored.
Font	Font of text to apply to watermarking
Size	Size of text to apply to watermarking
Bold	Whether to apply text bold to watermarking
Italic	Whether to apply text italic to watermarking
Color	Color of text to apply to watermarking
Position	Position of text to apply to watermarking
Opacity	Transparency of text to apply to watermarking
Rotate	Rotation angle of text to apply to watermarking
Layer	Choose whether watermarks appear above or below PDF content