One month ago, I created a pdf from this web page. It's a quite big collection of (text-only) articles. In Acrobat, I chose to get 2 levels, stay on the same server and on the same path.
Since than, two new articles have been published on this web page.
Is there a way to update existing pdf file to include them as well? See, I don't want to capture the whole website every time they publish a new article.
How to update the pdf created from a website?
2010-09-24 11:53:58
My Product Information:
Acrobat, Windows
Acrobat, Windows
2010-09-24 12:51:11
#2
O, I forgot to post the link, so here it is: http://www.useit.com/alertbox/
What do you mean by page counts? (Sorry, I'm new ;) )
When new articles are published, the posted website changes a bit - "table of contents" is updated. New articles are added, but the older articles stay on the website.
So, which method should I use then?
What do you mean by page counts? (Sorry, I'm new ;) )
When new articles are published, the posted website changes a bit - "table of contents" is updated. New articles are added, but the older articles stay on the website.
So, which method should I use then?
2010-09-27 03:39:48
#3
Ow, come on! Anyone?
2010-09-27 03:48:37
#4
If there's a table of contents involved and the number of pages in the new version of the PDF is going to be different, then you'll have to re-capture the entire site, or the links won't work.
2010-09-27 04:45:18
#5
Hi,
I don't know what is your Acrobat's version, but in Acrobat 8 (and older versions) there was a (really useful) "Refresh" option in the CaptureWeb sub-menu.
See detailled options here:
http://help.adobe.com/en_US/Acrobat/8.0/Professional/help.php?content=WS58a04a822e3e50102bd615109794195ff-7c94.php
Hope this can help.
I don't know what is your Acrobat's version, but in Acrobat 8 (and older versions) there was a (really useful) "Refresh" option in the CaptureWeb sub-menu.
See detailled options here:
http://help.adobe.com/en_US/Acrobat/8.0/Professional/help.php?content=WS58a04a822e3e50102bd615109794195ff-7c94.php
Hope this can help.
2010-09-27 05:30:20
#6
The refresh option in A8 did a different thing - it appended the updated pages to the end of the document, but did not change the old ones. It was there so you could keep a change-log of a site, not to keep a PDF in sync with the pages, but as websites converted to PDF in Acrobat 9 are more complex the idea of detecting changes has become too cumbersome.
You also had to specify the option when the original PDF was created, so that it was structured in a way to allow comparisons. However as it still needed to scrape the entire site, then go through and compare every word, it was far simpler and quicker to just recreate the PDF from scratch.
You also had to specify the option when the original PDF was created, so that it was structured in a way to allow comparisons. However as it still needed to scrape the entire site, then go through and compare every word, it was far simpler and quicker to just recreate the PDF from scratch.
Alternately (or if the page counts are now different), delete the affected pages in the original PDF, re-capture the new articles into a new PDF, and open them both at the same time. You can drag and drop pages from the thumbnails of one into the thumbnails of the other.