If you want to go a professional way, you can use Adobe Illustrator or alternatives both paid and free. The Wiki has a good list listing software not a full though which can work with PDF files. There are also online tools which allow you create PDF files.
But usually you need to pay for a full control of what you get in your PDF file. The bottom line is that creating PDF from the ground up takes too much efforts and in some cases money for what I need. But in your case it may be an option. Why not. And here is the same piece in the generated PDF file:. This can be an aesthetic issue if your website background colors are very contrast. Just generate a PDF see how below and see if this is okay or too striking in your case.
A bottom line, I have experienced these restrictions. But in your case your website theme, operation system, software it may be not an issue. You can save published blog posts and pages as well as drafts in a preview mode. In case with saving drafts to as a complete web page, you can later see the next section delete the WordPress Administrator top panel from the file in the text editor e.
MS Word. The sweet part is that you can remove anything from the file, add images, additional screenshots, fix alignment etc. And this is as easy as editing an ordinary MS Word document. But the problem is that you are editing a web document not a text document and try to edit it with a text editor. So there may be some restrictions. For example these two issues appeared to be the most prominent for me:. As you can see, the positions of the foto and the text are broken. What you can do about it?
Either manually edit it in MS Word alignment, fixing wrapping text or simply replace the problematic part with a screenshot from a web page. I could not add a footer or a header to a document to display on each page. Well, I had just to cope with that. I could not find a way how to do it easily. I also noticed that saving a file into MS Word format makes the editing easier.
If your website is totally built with a page builder or you are heavily using a similar plugin, then there may be too much editing for you. You need to see it yourself. This is as simple as it sounds. Just export or save the edited document as a PDF file. And save the edited file in MS Word format so that you can edit it later if you need and as a backup up option if something goes wrong.
When exported, open the PDF file and check if the content looks good. Sometimes you will notice that something should be fixed. You may notice it in the final PDF file and not when editing it in the MS Word file because when exporting the document may look a little different. In this case the duplicate content is not the issue. You need to avoid duplicate content issue. File Manager in cPanel. By the way, I know that this folder will be backed up by my backup solution.
But WordPress backup plugins do not backup directories like that i. If you are using a backup plugin and if you want your PDF files to be included in your website backups, you may want to create a folder for your PDF files inside wp-content folder which should be backed up by a WP backup plugin. Disadvantage of this upload method is that your PDF files will be stored together with images and other WordPress uploads.
And the best way to do so is using X-Robots-Tag directives. In short, you need to create an. Show hidden files in cPanel File Manager. If you want to use other than PDF or DOC formats for your downloadables, just add the required file extensions similarly. Now, the files you upload to the specified folder and its child folders will be ignored by search engines.
Otherwise, you have multiple options how to let your website visitors download the PDF files or other downloadable format you make. You can use whatever way you want. It can be a link, a button, a clickable image, a button created with a specialized plugin, a button created with a CSS, JS etc.
When a user clicks it the specified file will be downloaded by a browser. Not a big deal though. Another a bit more interesting option — a clickable image. You may need it for example when you decide to update the article. Editing existing MS Word file is easier than creating it from a blog post again. Turning your blog post into a downloadable PDF is quite simple.
But depending on what result you want to get it may require less or more actions. There is a number of ways to do it — from automatically generated PDF from your blog posts with a help of a plugin to a manually designing PDF from scratch. In this tutorial I wanted to share a happy medium solution of making a PDF. This allows more freedom and control on what gets into the PDF file. But at the same time it requires some manual actions and a little bit editing.
For me it was the best way to generate PDF from my blog posts the way I wanted, at least for now. If this method works for you too, I will be glad to hear about it in the comments. Feel free to share your experience. Subscribe to my Free Researches Work on your blog and small business more efficiently! BTW, I respect your privacy, and of course I don't send spam, affiliate offers or trade your emails.
What I send is information that I consider useful. I hope you enjoyed the article! You can read my free researches on resources and tools for bloggers and small business owners on this website. By the way, if we haven't met before - my name is Michael Bely. Don't be shy - add your comment or question below and let's talk!
The comments for new authors are held for moderation, but no worries, I approve them regularly :. One questions I do have.
I want to start my own blog but cannot decide on a domain name. When I set up a blog and choose a domain name is it possible that I can change the name later on? You can change your domain name.
But you will need either to start your website from scratch again or you will need to migrate your site from old domain to a new domain which can be challenging sometimes. I created a notepad document and then tried changing it to. You need to use a file manager to do it. For example, you can use one in your control panel provided by your hosting e. Or you can use a FTP client e. Filezilla to upload a file to your server. Thanks for the quick reply! Super appreciate it and your post was on point.
Awesome quick easy way to turn my posts into PDFs! No problem. The PDF copy of this article is available at the end of the article click the button there. Feel free to let me know if you mean anything different. If you understand the advantages of this manual method of semi-manual way of creating PDF, it can bring your advantages compared to PDF-creating plugins.
Feel free to let me know if you have any questions. Hey Michel are you not worried where your blog as a downloaded pdf is going to be used? Credit issues? If someone wants to steal the content they will do it this way or the other. From my point of view protecting the publicly available content which my blog is does not make much sense. I make my posts available for download for the easy of use for my subscribers. One of my subscribers asked for this feature.
And it means that dozens of other my subscribers wanted it silently. Thanks for this, quite interesting. Hey John, Thanks for the input. Yes, this is one of the plugins which allow creating PDF s from blog posts. But like other plugins it does not allow editing the content which goes finally to PDF. The PDF version of this ebook will always remain free to download here on Blogger Buster, though hopefully it will soon be available in other formats for which there may be a small fee.
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