Not a bad idea, and I used to save lots of web pages as PDFs in the distant past, but I've noticed that a large percentage of sites will not print out correctly as a PDF these days. I see myriad problems these days: the page is truncated on the right (no matter how much you zoom out), or all pages come out blank after the first page, or the PDF gets rendered as an image (taking many megabytes per page) rather than as text, or the outer frame prints but inner frames with the actual content are missing.
replyThe more "modern" the site, the worse it is. Surprisingly, government websites often print correctly since they've done the least amount of work to make the site modern looking.
> a large percentage of sites will not print out correctly as a PDF these days.
replyReader mode.
Very true.
replyEven full page screenshot doesn’t always capture the non visible part of the page (below the viewport).
Except search. I want search. Going to try this project.
replyYeah, about search:
reply $ pdfgrep -r -i -n -H "your mom" ~/PDFArchives/
You could combine it with existing products like DevonThink that are meant for researchers organizing documents and provide tagging, semantic search, similarity graphs, and so on.
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