MSDN help in in pdf/doc format?

[John Dalberg]

Is there a way to convert a section of the MSDN .NET help to pdf format? I
would like to read these on my eReader.

John Dalberg

 

[Miroslav Stampar [MCSD.NET / Security+]]

Install virtual PDF printer like PDF4Free (http://www.pdfpdf.com/
pdf4free.html) or Jaws PDF. Then after opening MSDN content right
click on it and choose "Print...". Select Virtual PDF printer and
click Print. Software will ask you for a resulting PDF location and on
the end will make you a PDF there

HTH
..

 

[Aneesh Pulukkul[MCSD.Net]]

Install virtual PDF printer like PDF4Free (http://www.pdfpdf.com/
pdf4free.html) or Jaws PDF. Then after opening MSDN content right
click on it and choose "Print...". Select Virtual PDF printer and
click Print. Software will ask you for a resulting PDF location and on
the end will make you a PDF there

HTH
.






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I was using pdf995(http://www.pdf995.com) for the same. Thanks
Miroslav for updating.

 

[Ignacio Machin \( .NET/ C# MVP \)]

Hi,

If you have one of the several products that install a PDF Printer you can
select print and select that printer

 

[John Dalberg]

Install virtual PDF printer like PDF4Free (http://www.pdfpdf.com/
pdf4free.html) or Jaws PDF. Then after opening MSDN content right
click on it and choose "Print...". Select Virtual PDF printer and
click Print. Software will ask you for a resulting PDF location and on
the end will make you a PDF there

Thanks but this will print one page at a time. Very time consuming. I want
to read MSDN like a book, many pages in a signle pdf file. Ideally I want a
solution where I right click on a topic in the left pane, and it
automatically prints the topic with all the subtopics in a single pdf.

Maybe I have to program this myself. Start with a url from the table of
contents in the msdn and scrape the html and print to pdf every html page
for every subtopic recursively. Then assemble all the pdf's to a single
pdf.

Any better ideas?

John dalberg

 

[Aneesh Pulukkul[MCSD.Net]]

Thanks but this will print one page at a time. Very time consuming. I want
to read MSDN like a book, many pages in a signle pdf file. Ideally I want a
solution where I right click on a topic in the left pane, and it
automatically prints the topic with all the subtopics in a single pdf.

Maybe I have to program this myself. Start with a url from the table of
contents in the msdn and scrape the html and print to pdf every html page
for every subtopic recursively. Then assemble all the pdf's to a single
pdf.

Any better ideas?

John dalberg

You require a website grabber/crawler kind of stuff?. I don't think
such kind of thing will work for MSDN. Will update you if I get any
news.

 

[John Dalberg]

You require a website grabber/crawler kind of stuff?. I don't think
such kind of thing will work for MSDN. Will update you if I get any
news.

It should work. It requires some development. You scrape and parse the
pages to get the URLs and then load these pages. These pages have a printer
friendly option which is just the same url with an additional parameter.

Any free PDF creation tools with API's ?

John Dalberg