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RexRollman on Nov 26, 2010 | parent | context | favorite | on: Bookmark Archives That Don't

I've tried making PDFs of interesting webpages before, for personal archiving, using various PDF printers for Windows. I always ended up with files that looked weird and not at all like the webpage.

I eventually found a FF extension that would save pages perfectly as a JPG or PNG but then the text was no longer selectable or searchable.

laktek on Nov 26, 2010 [–]

One should build a service that will save the page as an image while keeping textual content of the page separately for searching.

mixmax on Nov 26, 2010 | [–]

Maybe it would even be possible to reproduce these webpages using HTML.

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