…more RSS2PDF
Adding to my earlier post.
At the moment as I read the web I print pages out as I find them (for reading on the train journey home).
What I would prefer is to bookmark these pages so I can print them out at the end of the day, but I don’t want to press print for each item, I just want to press print once, to print all items.
I thought if I read stuff in Newsgator Online I can clip to my clippings folder, and at the end of the day run the RSS feed from the clippings folder through RSS2PDF for my daily digest.
But this has 2 problems:
1. It doesn’t include web pages that I don’t read through Newsgator Online
2. It will only print full-text if it appears in Newsgator Online
I thought using del.icio.us will take care of problem 1. as you can save any webpage you like.
But problem 2. is even worse now because at the end of the day if you put your del.icio.us RSS feed through RSS2PDF you will only get a PDF version of what your del.icio.us account looks like (title, URL, comments) - so you only get a bibliographic type list and not the full-text of all the pages you have bookmarked.
The good thing about del.icio.us is you could save your items using tags, and then take your main del.icio.us feed and convert it to PDF, hoping that all your items would appear under tag sections, maybe also being able to print a Table of Contents.
Then you would have to purge your account, allowing you to populate it with only the next day’s items, unless you had a date RSS feed which would only print out items from a specific date.
del.icio.us seems ideal in collecting items and organising them into sections, but it doesn’t print out (via RSS2PDF) the full-text of each item from the del.icio.us page (ie. the RSS feed doesn’t include the full-text of each item, it only includes what you see on your del.icio.us page).
As explained in the previous post you could use a service that doesn’t require a feed URL, but just a normal URL, like PDF-o-matic, but you have to manually print each item as you go, it doesn’t store items for you to print at the end of the day, if it did, it would be good if you could press print only once to print all your collected items…also it would be good to tag your items so your daily digest could be organised into sections.
…any developers out there!
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Hi John,
Just wanted to announce that http://rss2pdf.com now has a feature called ‘OPML as Feed’.
Based on an idea from an email sent to me by Peter Cooper from FeedDigest.com, this feature takes the url of an OPML file and turns into into a PDF ‘launching pad’ for you to use Acrobat Reader as a full-fledged Newsreader.
The ‘launching pad’ PDFs generated by http://rss2pdf.com of course contain the Feed links from the OPML file you pass to it. Simply by clicking on the links to these feeds in your PDF, you can navigate to and from all of the newsfeeds in your OPML file (provided you don’t have more than 50 newsfeeds listed there - the application sets 50 as the limit for the number of newsfeeds to display).
But this is all kinda hard to describe, so why not just take it for a test drive using a sample Yahoo News OPML file:
http://rss2pdf.com/?url=http://opml.rss2pdf.com/yahoo1.opml
Use it with your own OPML file using this basic link format:
RSS2PDF.com OPML as Feed (Max. 50 OPML Entries)
http://rss2pdf.com?url=http://www.yourdomain.com/rss/youropml.opml
Aggregators? Newsreaders? Who needs ‘em? - as long as you got Acrobat, and an OPML file somewhere, you’re good to go !
Just remember where you saw it first
Tom Churm
http://rss2pdf.com
Comment by Tom Churm — August 9, 2005 @ 3:30 pm
Hi,
wit http://www.feed2mail.org you can send your feed to friends via email. No need to create a PDF before.
Uli
Comment by uli — August 11, 2005 @ 4:59 am