MSDN help in in pdf/doc format?

[John Dalberg]

Is there a way to convert a section of the MSDN .NET help to pdf format? I
would like to read these on my eReader.

John Dalberg

[Miroslav Stampar [MCSD.NET / Security+]]

Install virtual PDF printer like PDF4Free (http://www.pdfpdf.com/
pdf4free.html) or Jaws PDF. Then after opening MSDN content right
click on it and choose "Print...". Select Virtual PDF printer and
click Print. Software will ask you for a resulting PDF location and on
the end will make you a PDF there

HTH :)
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John Dalberg wrote:

Is there a way to convert a section of the MSDN .NET help to pdf format? I
would like to read these on my eReader.

John Dalberg

[Aneesh Pulukkul[MCSD.Net]]

On Jun 8, 5:13 pm, "Miroslav Stampar [MCSD.NET / Security+]"
<[e-mail]:

Install virtual PDF printer like PDF4Free (http://www.pdfpdf.com/
pdf4free.html) or Jaws PDF. Then after opening MSDN content right
click on it and choose "Print...". Select Virtual PDF printer and
click Print. Software will ask you for a resulting PDF location and on
the end will make you a PDF there

HTH :)
.

John Dalberg wrote:

Is there a way to convert a section of the MSDN .NET help to pdf format? I
would like to read these on my eReader.

John Dalberg- Hide quoted text -

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I was using pdf995(http://www.pdf995.com) for the same. Thanks
Miroslav for updating.

[Ignacio Machin \( .NET/ C# MVP \)]

Hi,

If you have one of the several products that install a PDF Printer you can
select print and select that printer

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Is there a way to convert a section of the MSDN .NET help to pdf format? I
would like to read these on my eReader.

John Dalberg

[John Dalberg]

"Miroslav Stampar [MCSD.NET / Security+]" <mi**************@gmail.com>
wrote:

Install virtual PDF printer like PDF4Free (http://www.pdfpdf.com/
pdf4free.html) or Jaws PDF. Then after opening MSDN content right
click on it and choose "Print...". Select Virtual PDF printer and
click Print. Software will ask you for a resulting PDF location and on
the end will make you a PDF there

Thanks but this will print one page at a time. Very time consuming. I want
to read MSDN like a book, many pages in a signle pdf file. Ideally I want a
solution where I right click on a topic in the left pane, and it
automatically prints the topic with all the subtopics in a single pdf.

Maybe I have to program this myself. Start with a url from the table of
contents in the msdn and scrape the html and print to pdf every html page
for every subtopic recursively. Then assemble all the pdf's to a single
pdf.

Any better ideas?

John dalberg

[Aneesh Pulukkul[MCSD.Net]]

On Jun 8, 10:29 pm, [e-mail] (John Dalberg) wrote:

"Miroslav Stampar [MCSD.NET / Security+]" <[e-mail]>
wrote:

Install virtual PDF printer like PDF4Free (http://www.pdfpdf.com/
pdf4free.html) or Jaws PDF. Then after opening MSDN content right
click on it and choose "Print...". Select Virtual PDF printer and
click Print. Software will ask you for a resulting PDF location and on
the end will make you a PDF there

Thanks but this will print one page at a time. Very time consuming. I want
to read MSDN like a book, many pages in a signle pdf file. Ideally I want a
solution where I right click on a topic in the left pane, and it
automatically prints the topic with all the subtopics in a single pdf.

Maybe I have to program this myself. Start with a url from the table of
contents in the msdn and scrape the html and print to pdf every html page
for every subtopic recursively. Then assemble all the pdf's to a single
pdf.

Any better ideas?

John dalberg

You require a website grabber/crawler kind of stuff?. I don't think
such kind of thing will work for MSDN. Will update you if I get any
news.

[John Dalberg]

"Aneesh Pulukkul[MCSD.Net]" <an******@gmail.comwrote:

On Jun 8, 10:29 pm, [e-mail] (John Dalberg) wrote:

"Miroslav Stampar [MCSD.NET / Security+]" <[e-mail]>
wrote:

Install virtual PDF printer like PDF4Free (http://www.pdfpdf.com/
pdf4free.html) or Jaws PDF. Then after opening MSDN content right
click on it and choose "Print...". Select Virtual PDF printer and
click Print. Software will ask you for a resulting PDF location and
on the end will make you a PDF there

Thanks but this will print one page at a time. Very time consuming. I
want to read MSDN like a book, many pages in a signle pdf file. Ideally
I want a solution where I right click on a topic in the left pane, and
it automatically prints the topic with all the subtopics in a single
pdf.

Maybe I have to program this myself. Start with a url from the table of
contents in the msdn and scrape the html and print to pdf every html
page for every subtopic recursively. Then assemble all the pdf's to a
single pdf.

Any better ideas?

John dalberg

You require a website grabber/crawler kind of stuff?. I don't think
such kind of thing will work for MSDN. Will update you if I get any
news.

It should work. It requires some development. You scrape and parse the
pages to get the URLs and then load these pages. These pages have a printer
friendly option which is just the same url with an additional parameter.

Any free PDF creation tools with API's ?

John Dalberg