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HTML / web page to PDF

Hello.

 

I have been browsing the web now for about an hour and a half looking for an Acrobat feature or solution to the lack of feature regarding automatic pagination of HTML files or websites when imported and converted to PDF format.

 

My issue is that I have an HTML file with content of standard letter width (8.5"), but roughly 2-3 pages in height (about 25 inches). There is nothing on the HTML page itself optimized to take into consideration Acrobat's automatic page breaks (no CSS or br elements declared to make whitespace where anticipated Acrobat pagebreaks will occur), and I am trying to figure out if its even possible to import this type of file WITHOUT causing page breaks, so that the entire HTML file shows up on one oversized page instead of arbitrarily broken up into standard page sizes which results in content being broken, etc.

 

So far I have found this post here http://forums.adobe.com/message/3098742 explaining a very similar issue, however, that was almost a year ago and my issue doesn't involve re-burning PDF files, it is just to simply disable automatic pagination or setting a default page size when importing an HTML file or website.

 

I have also come accross numerous articles explaining how to increase page size via printing the multi-page PDF file to another PDF and specifying the scale, but as implied, this only affects the page size and not the actual fitting of multiple pages of content into a single page.

 

So basically as it stands, I can expect to never be able to achieve this?

 

If this is the case, I regret to inform whoever matters that this will ultimately influence my decision to not purchase shell out $450 for Adobe Acrobat, as this is literally the only feature I would need Acrobat for. I am 10x more efficient at creating identical brochures by writing HTML and CSS line-by-line than I am at actually dragging and dropping elements into any design suite, however bass-ackwards that might seem.

 

I think it makes 110% sense to include this functionality in Acrobat. Maybe an ability to specify page breaks by telling acrobat which HTML element to use to trigger a pagebreak?

 

EG: <br class="acrobat-page"/>

 

When importing an HTML file into Acrobat, possibly be able to specify a pagebreak to occur at every instance of "br.acrobat-page" ?

 

I can't possibly be the first person who'se thought of something like this...

 

Any input is greatly appreciated, and if anybody knows of a tool that can produce what I need, I would love to know about it.

 

Thanks

-A

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