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I have a long web page of a study guide, I want to convert the main content of that page into pdf, I mean minus the navigation bar, the footer, and so on. Is there a tool to do that? I am using Ubuntu 14.04, and my main browser is Firefox.

webmarc
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Mohamed Ahmed
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You can use a mobilizer such as the one from readability, as detailed in this Q/A from stack overflow. Here's an example of what the page would look like (copied from the SO answer): http://www.readability.com/m?url=http://www.cnn.com/2013/01/11/showbiz/tv/golden-globes-tv-vineyard/index.html?hpt=hp_abar

All you have to do is edit the above link to substitute the URL you want "cleaned" for the CNN example.

Then you can use your favorite pdf utility (such as Web2PDF, mentioned in another answer here).

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webmarc
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If you were on Google Chrome, I would say that you can use Print option in menu and choose "Save as PDF" as your printer.

But for now, you can use PrintFriendly web site to easily convert your online web page to a PDF file.

http://www.printfriendly.com

Edit: There is also another way: You can save the web page as an HTML file, edit with a WYSIWYG editor and after editing convert it with an HTML2PDF or PDF Printer or any other tool you know!

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I use the Firefox add-in Web2PDF for that purpose if the web page is generally clean. If there is a lot of stuff I don't want to include, I use another add-on, Print Edit, which lets you delete anything you don't want printed.

EDIT: I always just use the Add-on Manager; search on the name or function. However, based on the comment, I noticed external links: http://www.web2pdfconvert.com/pdf-button
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/print-edit/

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A solution which is a bit manual but does not require installing anything or using any third-party services:

Copy-paste the text from browser to LibreOffice Writer, then choose File - Export as PDF. If you copy carefully you can even avoid copying the header, footer and other elements you don't need.

Easy! :)

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