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Alright, we're going to finish off this module with an extremely cool command and nobody really knows about this command inside Acrobat. This command is going to let you convert a web page to a PDF; really cool. And every once in a while, once in a blue moon, this command is really going to bail you out of a tight situation. I've got the VTC site open here inside Firefox and I'm going to attempt anyway to convert the VTC website to a PDF file. So we'll see how this sort of plays out here. I'm going to make sure I'm inside Acrobat here and then from Acrobat's File Menu I'm going to head down to Create PDF and then the command that we're after is From Web Page. So choose that guy, get this dialog box up here. Now, what I would do inside the URL Field is I would obviously type in the address of the website that I want to capture here; VTC.com. What I can even do is I can go Capture Multiple Levels. I'm just going to click on this little blue arrow and I have some settings in here. I could say Get Only X Number of Levels of This Site. So maybe, you know, two levels, three levels, this sort of thing. What I could do as well is I could say Stay on the Same Path, in other words the same URL path that I've specified up at the top there, Stay on the Same Web Server as well, I could set that as well if I want. But you know what I'm going to do here with you? I'm feeling a little aggressive here. I'm going to go Get Entire Site. Give me the whole thing. Now, way down in the bottom right corner I have a Settings Button. I'm going to click on that guy and we have a little bit of control over how this conversion is going to take place. For example, I can decide on which file type I want to create; HTML or Text. What I'm creating from, I should say. Create Bookmarks; sure, what the heck? Let's add that. Place Headers and Footers on a New Page? Sure, we'll add that as well. And then also underneath the Page Layout Tab you can set up your paper size if you like there, your margins and also your orientation there; Portrait or Landscape. So you may want to come back and fiddle with some of this stuff. I'm going to take all the defaults here because I'm anxious to show you how this is going to work here. So I'll click on OK here and then when I am ready, back inside the Create PDF from Web Page Dialog Box, I'm going to click on Create. Now, this warning that you get, I love this warning. This Operation Could Take a Long Time to Complete and May Require a Large Amount of Hard Drive Space. In other words, your computer may crash if you do this. Well, what the heck. Let's click on Yes and we'll see what we get here. I can see this Download Status Dialog Box and Acrobat's really going to town converting everything over here. Alright, so the VTC site is opened in the background while the downloading continues here. You know what I'm going to do, I'm just going to shove this Download Status Box out of the way here, get it right out of the way, because I want to show you what we have here. Let's collapse down my bookmarks here. There it is. There's a look at the VTC website inside Acrobat. Now, it's still loading in the background here but this gives you a rough idea of what we would get here. Of course, if we waited a little bit longer we'd get the rest of the site opened up inside Acrobat. What's very cool is, well, is as it's loading, you'll see your page count area, way up on your toolbar, you'll see the total number of pages increase as it sorts of chugs along there. So I've only got a three-page PDF here. By the time I finish this video here, it'll probably be increased to maybe five or ten or something like that. But what I wanted to mention as well is as you're moving your cursor around inside your new PDF file, you'll see that your links are still active. Whenever you move your mouse over top of a link and there's a W inside your hand, that means that it's a web link. So if I click on that guy, he's actually going to open up inside my web browser. Now, sometimes, I don't think I'm going to be able to find one here, but sometimes you'll find that there's a link but there isn't a W. What that means is that's an internal link. So if I click on that link, it's actually going to take me to a different location inside this current PDF file. So all of the links are maintained, which is very cool. It does a decent job on maintaining the layout of the site as well as you can see here. And like I say, every once in a blue moon this is really going to bail you out. Where I've seen this used in the past is I have to head down to the client's site, I'm flying over to the client's site and I didn't get a chance to review their website so I'm going to convert it over to PDF and I'm going to review it on the plane on my laptop. I've actually done that before. Or maybe I'm in a situation where my client wants to markup a web page and indicate some changes to me, this sort of thing. So variety of different situations. But anyway, have lots of fun with this one and there's a look at converting your web pages to PDF.