Oooh, a pdf-newspaper of my blog...

For my earlier post on turning pdf's of news-papers into images with small file-size I wanted a cheap way to mock up a news-paper, avoiding any potential copyright issues. Came across a pretty impressive site that does a really nice job of it - fivefilters.org. You just feed it a url and it pdf'izes it.

You have to explicitly tell it to keep images, otherwise you'll get a text-only pdf, as I found the first time I tried it. This is the url to create a pdf of my blog (note "images=true")

http://fivefilters.org/pdf-newspaper/makepdf.php?images=true&feed=http%3A%2F%2Fsteveliles.blogspot.com%2F

And here's a sample of the result (click to download the full pdf ~1.3Mb):

I'm impressed, fivefilters, nice job!