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August 1, 2005

RSS 2 PDF

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RSS 2 PDF generates a PDF of summaries of your latest posts….I wonder why it doesn’t generate my full posts, as I don’t use excerpts.

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hi, my name is tom and i’m the guy who made rss2pdf.com.

there is indeed a slight bug in the code which means it’s checking to see if the tag is there in a feed first, and if it’s there, it’s using that instead of looking for a tag, which is what contains the full posts in your feeds.

just another thing for my todo list

the thing’s not marked ‘beta’ for nuthin’, you know. but thanks a whole lot for mentioning rss2pdf.com. this should be pretty easy to fix, but do me a favor and give me a coupla days.

Comment by Tom Churm — August 2, 2005 @ 9:11 pm
fyi, i fixed the problem with your full posts not appearing in the pdfs.

check it out:
http://rss2pdf.com/?url=http://libraryclips.blogsome.com/feed/rdf/

but i still have to write a function that will converted encoded characters like:
…

Comment by Tom Churm — August 3, 2005 @ 11:57 am
Cool Tom…a PDF of my latest blogposts.

I’m going to run my favourite RSS feeds through this tool to read my favourite blog posts on the train (I’ll try not to waste too much paper)

…not sure what you mean by encoded characters, but if it means organising a post into exactly how it looks on the original site it will be perfect (you know, in paragraphs)

Thanks for making this useful tool!

Do you have a button I can put on my sidebar, underneath the button I could write “print out the latest posts” (actually how many posts does it pick-up)

This got me thinking, could you put this button at the end of every blog post so you can print a friendly version of just that blog post (you know, like a “print this” link)

Comment by Johnt — August 4, 2005 @ 3:00 am
Also Tom…I just noticed you have OPML2PDF

I tried this with my bloglines OPML but it didn’t work:

http://rss2pdf.com?src=opml&url=http://www.bloglines.com/export?id=johnt

Also does it default to the first 10 feeds?

Comment by Johnt — August 4, 2005 @ 3:30 am

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