Saving a SharePoint Page to PDF

Question

_{Wednesday, July 27, 2011 1:18 PM | 2 votes}

We have a client who wanted a custom built newsletter on their site that could be saved out as a pdf when published and stored in an external document library. Originally they were going to use Adobe X, but it keeps generating a blank page at the beginning of each pdf and removing all styles and formatting. I was hoping someone on here might know of an alternate solution for saving a SharePoint page as a PDF.

Thanks.

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_{Wednesday, July 27, 2011 1:32 PM ✅Answered | 1 vote}

Here are a few options:

http://store.bamboosolutions.com/sharepoint-office-to-pdf-conversion.aspx

http://www.adlibsoftware.com/solutions/sharepoint-solutions.aspx

http://www.muhimbi.com/Products/PDF-Converter-for-SharePoint/Summary.aspx?gclid=CPv_65rRoaoCFQoJ2godb0NYUw

I have not used these tools personally - but Bing sure likes them ;-)

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Jeff DeVerter

_{Wednesday, August 3, 2011 9:49 AM ✅Answered}

The Muhimbi product can do HTML to PDF Conversion (as well as many other formats and functions) from the SharePoint UI, Workflows as well as your own code.

Have a look at the following:

• Convert HTML pages to PDF format using the SharePoint User Interface
• Converting SharePoint Lists to PDF format using a SharePoint Designer Workflow
• Programmatically Converting Web / HTML pages to PDF format

Please note that I work for Muhimbi so the usual disclaimers apply.

_{Friday, March 28, 2014 4:30 PM}

Crawling through some social threads and came across this post.  I'm sure it's resolved by now, but for others in the same boat a few thoughts. 

You're not alone!  Complaints about font substitutions, re-formatting, missing layers, pagination, sizing, etc. are disturbingly common PDF problems. So much so that we even wrote a whitepaper on this very topic "All PDFs Are Not Equal"

We look at 'basic rendering' - the kind of product you get as a default in most systems (eg. "print to PDF") or in shareware/freeware - as distinct from "Advanced Rendering".  The later is much more robust, not only ensuring the fidelity of the document, but also supporting automatic document enhancements, providing meta-data driven rules engines, and ensuring system performance.  

Sadly content is often ignored during broader ECM/WCM discussions... but focusing on vendors that offer Advanced Rendering is critical when looking at PDF conversion as part of a larger business process.

*Full disclosure:  I'm with Adlib Software... one of those Advanced Rendering vendors! *