I have pulled a web site with Acrobat Pro 9, and made a PDF document of it. But the lines are very long, so I'd like to make the text bigger (for screen reading). But amongst the hundreds of tools I find in Acrobat Pro, I don't see anything to change font or text size! Very puzzling. Can anybody help? (A googling did not help much.)
(I guess a side question is, what methods are there for taking a large site and save the whole thing in a handy package, in a universal format.)
But amongst the hundreds of tools I find in Acrobat Pro, I don't see anything to change font or text size! Very puzzling.
ReplyDeleteHow would you propose that such a feature would work? Keep in mind that PDF is a page description language (a descendant of PostScript), not a high level document file format.
If you increase the point size of the typeface, the glyphs will render on top of the glyphs on the line immediately above. Or whatever happens to be there.
What you ask is a bit like asking a JPEG viewer to be able to reposition the individual objects depicted in the image.
I can see that, OK.
ReplyDeleteBut since Acrobat is a Pro tool, I thought it was for *making* and exporting PDF. And since it is making a PDF from an exported web site, it must be making some decisions as to how to render the text then translated to page format. So one would think the user could have some influence on those decisions. It's silly if it does all that automatically, and there's nothing one can do to influence it.
You can open a PDF in Illustrator and have much more control over it. But usually each line of text shows up as a separate element, making it hard to resize and reflow several lines at the same time.
ReplyDeleteI think the easiest way to do this is start with a blank document in Pages, Word, or InDesign, and copy and paste the text and photos separately from your PDF.
Right you are.
ReplyDeleteBut this is a big site.
http://www.facimoutreach.org/qa/indextoquestions.htm
http://stobblehouse.com/text/FACIMarchive.pdf
http://stobblehouse.com/text/FACIMarchive.zip
And importing into a PDF directly is the only handy way I know...
Well, I guess I could save the whole site in Firefox. At least html pages are flexible.
No, it seems browsers only let you save one page.
ReplyDeleteI guess a side question is, what methods are there for taking a large site and save the whole thing in a handy package, in a universal format?
"... what methods are there for taking a large site and save the whole thing in a handy package, in a universal format?"
ReplyDeleteSometimes I use "HTTrack Website Copier" to make a local copy of a complete Website. That program changes all links to local links, so that you can read the whole site offline as if you were online.
Addendum: This program is available for Windows, Mac and Linux.
ReplyDeleteNot sure it creates a "handy package" but SiteSucker (Mac) will pull down a site
ReplyDeleteI forgot to mention: Its freeware.
ReplyDeleteThanks, guys.
ReplyDeleteI used SiteSucker a couple of times, for example for a site which was an an extremely slow server, so I just let it sit there, collecting the content.
Huh, I even still have it on my disk!
ReplyDeleteBut it won't seem to work. Maybe cuz it's an intel Mac. I'll try upgrading.
I guess one could jut make a zip file of the whole thing, for offline browsing. Though I do think the PDF file is neater.
HTTrack Website Copier is for Mac OSX.
ReplyDeleteI couldn't find Httrack for mac, but I updated sitesucker, and I must say it works beautifully and fast to recreate a whole site hierachy on disk, complete and functional.
ReplyDeletehttp://stobblehouse.com/text/facimoutreach-org.zip
... what methods are there for taking a large site and save the whole thing in a handy package, in a universal format?
ReplyDeleteFor hypertext, there is no more universal format than HTML.
What you might consider doing though, is replace the stylesheet with one of your own (with your preference of typefaces and sizes), a bit like the readability bookmarklet and Safari Reader do.
Ah, is that what they do!
ReplyDeleteThanks, interesting.