Ask HN: Batch snapshot web – PDF?

1 points by esquivalience ↗ HN
Does anyone know a tool that will batch process a list of URLs into PDF screenshots? I know some great tools but none that are quite right for me.

I often need to take screenshots of web pages for print-outs. As a lawyer, this is usually to show that web-based businesses are having their content copied or their designs ripped off by others.

The tools I use at the moment are:

- Nirsoft Siteshoter [0]: a fantastic tool that outputs images. Part of a wide range of useful free tools [1]... Unfortunately this adds a stage to the PDF process, though, and loses the text information, outputting it as pixels instead (leading to greater filesize, fuzzier prints). Also, it uses IE to render so the rendering is sometimes a bit off.

- Web2PDF [2]: Good browser-based tool but no batch functionality and font rendering is only average.

- Chrome: "Save as PDF" function is good for everyday use, but tends to ignore structure and background images, and doesn't allow for batch processing.

I'm not fussy about a fancy GUI - just need something that can read from a text file and output convenient PDFs. Any recommendations appreciated.

[0] http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/web_site_screenshot.html [1] http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/index.html [2] http://www.web2pdfconvert.com/

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