Save a Web Page as a PDF with Just One Click

03.08.2012
Typically, when you want to save a Web page for future reference, you bookmark it. But what happens if that site gets taken down? Or the content of the page gets changed? Or you want to actually preserve that page in a format that doesn't require a Web browser?

All good questions. The simplest answer: Save important Web pages as PDFs. That gives you a much more permanent solution for storing, sharing, printing, and otherwise manipulating important Web content.

There are a number of ways to do this, but I'm partial to . There are actually three ways to use this handy free service: Copy and paste the URL of the page you want to convert; e-mail the URL of the page you want to convert to ; or .

I like this last option the best, as it's literally a one-click solution. (Well, sort of. Read on.)

To add it to your browser (any browser -- it works with all of them), click the on the Web2PDF site, then click the first of the two links you see: ...browser and convert web pages to PDF files with one click using...

Next, click Bookmarklet, then drag the actual bookmarklet to your browser's favorites bar.