It is evening and you are slowly getting ready to go to bed. You open your phone for a moment and suddenly you come across a great article that you would like to read. But you decide that you don't have the energy for it anymore and you'd rather read it tomorrow morning on the bus. Unfortunately, you have already used up your data limit - so you save the entire page, including images, in a PDF. You don't know how to do it? So read on.
How to save a web page to PDF
The procedure is very simple and I believe it is also very useful:
- Let's open the Safari web browser
- We go to the page we want to save (in my case, an article on Jablíčkář)
- We click on square with an arrow in the middle of the bottom of the screen
- A menu will open for us to select an option Save PDF to: iBooks
After a short wait, the iPhone will automatically redirect us to the iBooks application, which will display our page in PDF format. From the iBooks application, we can then save the PDF to, for example, Google Drive or share it with someone on iMessage.
Thanks to this trick, you no longer have to worry about not opening the article you wanted to read due to lack of data. All you have to do to read an article on the bus the next day is open the iBooks app. The article will be waiting for you here and you can read it in peace even without a data connection.
And what is the Reading List for? But it is true that the Reading List, even if I have it set to save pages for offline reading, often does not save the page at all, or tries to overwrite it with an unavailable version and will not show anything without internet. And the synchronization between devices with the Reading List is also unfortunately quite lame.