Ever found a web page that you really liked and wanted to keep on your computer for future reference (for use when you are off line, or in case the original disappears?)? Or do you have a PowerPoint or Inspirtation document that you want to share with others who don't have PowerPoint or Inspiration? Well, there is an answer... you can convert it to a PDF!
This topic just came up in our department because we (the faculty) have to provide electronic (but not web-based) copies of our syllabi to the examiners for our upcoming NCATE accreditation visit. Most of us now use Moodle as our course/content management system (CMS) and have our syllabi as web pages, rather than as Word documents. At first everyone thought that they had to convert their Moodle web page syllabi into Word docouments (which can be done, but is a hassle). But there is also the option to turn in syllabi as PDFs -- which is easy to do! I thought I'd share how to do this here on my handy-dandy techno-blog in case you wanted to know how.
If you use a Windows computer, go to http://www.pdfforge.org/pdfcreator and download the free application to enable you to do this (Windows users, jump in here using my comments box if you have a better tool or suggestion for Windows users). I believe this PDFForge app has a guide on how to do this (I suspect it will be similar to on a Mac).
If you are a Mac user, this feature is standard. To convert a web page (or any kind of document) into a pdf.
- Open the web page (in this case, your syllabus in Moodle) or whatever document you want to convert to a PDF
- From the "file" menu, select "print"
- When the Print dialog box opens, instead of clicking on the "print" button as you normally would, click instead on the PDF button (bottom left side of the printing dialog box) --> then from the drop down menu, choose "Save as PDF"
- Save this to your computer (naming it something that will make sense to you later!).
Happy pdfing! :)
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