Have you ever felt a need to convert a web page into a PDF file? While I wouldn’t go so far as to say that this is a common occurrence in my life, I can think of at least once or twice when it would have been a convenient way to save a page for later viewing.

As you probably know, if you save a webpage that you are viewing to your computer, the computer generally will save the page as an html file and then put all the graphics and other parts of the site in a separate subfolder. Also, any relative links on the page are generally useless after the save.

By using a tool called htm2pdf you can actually convert a copy of a webpage into a PDF file to save for later viewing. The page breaks that are automatically inserted by the tool may not be exactly desirable, but other than that I find that it is a bit more convenient than saving a copy of the page to my computer if for no other reason than the fact that there is only one file to deal with instead of a file and a directory.

As far as conservation of disk space, there is not really any significant advantage or disadvantage. A comparison of a PDF snapshot of romandock dot com created using htm2pdf compared to using the save page feature of Internet Explorer yielded very similar results in terms of disk space used.

While it is not something that I will be likely to use on a daily or even regular basis, I will say with certainty that htm2pdf will be “livin’ it up” in my bookmarks for easy reference when the need for it should arise.