Convert web pages to PDF in Acrobat

When you use Acrobat to convert web pages to PDF, you gain flexibility for converting additional linked web pages, entire web sites, and other options.

Convert a web page to PDF

  1. In Acrobat, choose File > Create PDF > From Web Page, or click the Create PDF From Web Page  on the toolbar to open the dialog box.
  2. In URL, enter the complete path to the web page, or click Browse and locate the HTML page that you want to convert.
  3. Under Settings, enter the number of levels you want to include, or select Get Entire Site to include all levels from the website.
    Note: Some websites may have hundreds or even thousands of pages. This can take a long time to download, may make your system slow and unresponsive, and can even use up all available hard disk space and memory, causing a system crash. You may want to begin by downloading only one level of pages and then go through them to find particular links to download.
  4. Select one or both of the following options:
    Option Description
    Stay On Same Path

    Downloads only web pages subordinate to the specified URL.
    Stay On Same Server

    Downloads only web pages stored on the same server.
  5. Click Settings, and review the selected options in the Web Page Conversion Settings dialog box. Make any changes you want on the General and Page Layout tabs, and click OK.
  6. Click Create.
    Note: You can view PDF pages while they are downloading; however, you cannot modify a page until the download process is complete.
    If you’re downloading more than one level of pages in Windows, the Download Status dialog box moves to the background after the first level is downloaded. Choose Advanced > Web Capture > Bring Status Dialogs To Foreground to see the dialog box again.

Add an unlinked web page to an existing PDF

Use this procedure to append pages to a writable PDF. If the original PDF is Read-Only, the result will be a new PDF rather than new pages in the existing PDF.

  1. Open the existing PDF in Acrobat (the PDF to which you want to append a web page).
  2. Choose Advanced > Web Capture > Create PDF From/Append Web Page.
  3. Enter the URL to the web page you want to append and select options, as described for converting web pages to PDF, and then click Create.

Add a linked web page to an existing PDF

  1. Open the previously converted PDF in Acrobat. If necessary, scroll to the page containing links to the pages you want to add.
  2. Do one of the following:

    • Click a web link in your PDF.

    • Right-click/Control-click the web link, and choose Append To Document.

    • Choose Advanced > Web Capture > View Web Links. The dialog box lists all the links on the current page or on the tagged bookmark’s pages. Using the Shift key or Ctrl key as needed, click to select the linked pages you want to add, or click Select All. Click Properties to set the download options, as needed, and then click Download.

    • Choose Advanced > Web Capture > Append All Links On Page.

      Note: After pages have been converted, links to these pages change to internal links, and clicking a link takes you to the PDF page, rather than to the original HTML page on the web.

Convert a linked web page to a new PDF

  1. Open the previously converted PDF in Acrobat. If necessary, scroll to the page containing a web link you want to convert.
  2. Do one of the following:

    • Right-click/Control-click the web link, and choose Open Weblink As New Document.

    • Ctrl-click/Control-click the web link.

Note: In Windows, you can also convert a linked page from a web page displayed in Internet Explorer, using a similar right-click command.

Copy the URL of a web link

Use this procedure to copy the path for a web link to the clipboard, to use it for other purposes.

  1. Open the previously converted PDF in Acrobat. If necessary, scroll to the page containing links to the pages you want to copy.
  2. Right-click/Control-click the web link and choose Copy Link Location.
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