Downloading/converting HTML pages to PDF

wkhtmltopdf is a software package that converts HTML pages to PDF. If this is not installed on your system, use the following command to do so:

$sudo apt-get install wkhtmltopdf

After installing, you can run the command using the following syntax:

$wkhtmltopdf URL[oftheHTMLfile] NAME[of the PDF file].pdf

For example, by using:

$wkhtmltopdf opensourceforu.com OSFY.pdf

…the OSFY.PDF will be downloaded to the current working directory.

You can read the documentation to know more about this.

—Manu Prasad, mmanuprasad@gmail.com