On Sun, 15 Aug 2004 18:12:07 -0700, jmm-list-gn
<jm***************@sohnen-moe.com> wrote:
robert wrote: A client of mine wants me to make a web site for them and to also
produce a PDF version of same. What's the best (and easiest) way to do
this? Acrobat? How hard is it to do? (I need to quote him a price on my
time as well)
If you have Acrobat, you should have an Acrobat printer driver. If not,
you can make one easily enough. Print the page to the Acrobat "printer";
it creates a PDF file as output.
It's a really odd request. What is wrong with making a demo page and
have them look at it with their own browser? Cheaper for both of you.
The question is what the client is really asking for - the OP wasn't
very explicit. It *may* be that the client is aware that printed output
from browsers is often mediocre (most of the CSS facilities for paged
media aren't implemented in most browsers) and that he therefore wants a
PDF version which looks good when printed - that could be a
time-consuming process, and I'd hesitate to say what would be the best
route (importing HTML into a DTP package?).
OTOH there aren't many sites where it would be sensible to produce a
separate PDF version of every page - generally it would only be worth
doing for a few pages which the reader is particularly likely to wish to
print out, and where a well laid out printed page is particularly
important for some reason.
--
Stephen Poley
http://www.xs4all.nl/~sbpoley/webmatters/