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- dank4000, on 10/12/2007, -2/+35Great from a nice flexible format into a right pain in the arse. Why would you want to do this?
I can see the point of PDFs for print literature, brochures, reports etc... but RSS really? Just because it can be done, doesn't mean it should be. - dacheetah, on 10/12/2007, -1/+14This is about as useful as giving a fish a bicycle. A bicycle is useful, but not for everything, and certainly not for fish.
- zoombusa, on 10/12/2007, -1/+14Why the heck would anyone want to do this? If everything on the web was in pdf format, the internet would come to a halt. And not to mention using adobe reader stalling our PCs.
- Kogut, on 10/12/2007, -1/+12Judging by the lack of an explanation on the website, it is apparent that not even the creator of this thoroughly useless tool knows either.
- akuma624, on 10/12/2007, -0/+9dank4000 is right - why in the world would you want to do this?
- interiot, on 10/12/2007, -1/+10Novelty? Bizarre. So all one needs to do to get on the front page is to write an .html to .swf converter, where the flash app auto-scrolls for you, and you can't click on any of the links? Or a .txt to animated .gif converter, where it shows a new page every 20 seconds, and hopefully you read at the right speed?
- apocalizer, on 10/12/2007, -3/+12Well, I think it should be done, although I'll never use it. It's just cool that you can do it, actually using it is a whole 'nuther matter...
I guess it would be useful if you wanted to read today's Digg stories on your eBook reader. - bat-21, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6The Chewbacca defense of software.
- quasipalm, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5I'm registering rss2pdf2rss.com right now...
- dxbmatt, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Apparently my offer of US$1 was not good enough
- raynevandunem, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Wait a minute, nevermind. Google IS my friend.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiReader
http://wiki.auf-trag.de/ - rss2pdf, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3OK, here are some uses of RSS2PDF:
Archive your feeds.
Print your feeds.
Offer your visitors a PDF version of your Blog.
Take your feeds offline.
Generate a PDF from your feeds and read it on your PDA.
Read your feeds in Acrobat Reader without having to install a newsreader application.
Create a PDF magazine of your favorite feeds by using the OPML2PDF function.
Bookmark the online PDFs of your favorite feeds for easy access and instant reading.
The growing amount of visitors to my site, together with the growing number of imitators out there, tells me that this is something people want. If you have no interest in it, feel free to slag it - I don't take it personally 8--)
Maybe you'll find my other site Link Leecher more useful:
http://linkleecher.com
Tom Churm
Developer Guy
http://rss2pdf.com
http://linkleecher.com - Dotnetsky, on 10/12/2007, -3/+6Good God! This is the kind of crap created by programmers who simply are looking for "something to do" without any regard or knowledge for its acceptance and usability. Lame!
- mojotek, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Apparently you can also buy the website:
http://www.sedo.com/search/details.php4?domain=rss2pdf.com&partnerid=22118
Remember, he's only willing to sell for the right price! *snicker* - bazac, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3Point?
- raynevandunem, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3Nah, this isn't useful to me, and I doubt to anyone else.
Now a *Wiki2PDF* generator, that would be interesting, and a tad bit necessary (for a printer-friendly, very readable version of, say, some long article on Wikipedia). - webtech, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3I will avoid your nasty comments. It's makes me want to leave digg because you doubt every post now.
for your info, I work really hard to find stuff that original and interesting to read.
I forgot to link to the source I find this one:
http://go2web2.blogspot.com/2006/09/rss-2-pdf-generator.html - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3Novelty?
- theOster, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2currently, i have no time to read things that i see come across my rss feeds. i end up opening anything interesting in tabs and then bookmarking the whole session as "2006.09.07 - 10.45am" and then reading the stuff at lunch or after work. this would be better than having to reopen browser windows...
also, white papers and longer reference material...nice to have a copy - rax262, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Exactly what I was thinking: "Why god, why!?!?"
PDFs are great for rendering stuff for print, but as an electronic media it's crap. I wish Google would do away with returning them in search results (or make the HTML conversion default) - LemonJuice, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I can turn RSS into a text file, can I get on the front page?
- GnuTzu, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Bleck!!!
Why not do the reverse. - lcarsdeveloper, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Why not just release the software as open source instead of forcing companies to rely on a website that could get bought out at any moment?
"I'm sorry Mr Smith, we couldn't convert your company's feed into PDF today because RSS2PDF.com is now the homepage for the movie 'Really Sexy Sluts 2: Penis Dick *****'"
This site has only one purpose. To make the webmaster money. He wants to make adsense revenue, or sell the site for some ridiculous amount of money. - MrViklund, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2Nice. The only bad thing is the "RSS2PDF" link in the bottom of every PDF created.
- eliasg, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I think it's for someone that wants to take their RSS news on-the-go in a format that is easy to print.
- Jerminator77, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2I could see a company using it internally. Someone creates a bunch of reports in web page or Word format. They could make an RSS feed out of the whole list of reports, then the reports could be "run" by converting them all to PDF via the RSS feed. Lots of company's require extraneous PDF's.
- theOster, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2LOL...adobe reader
http://www.foxitsoftware.com/pdf/rd_intro.php - interiot, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3Because if there's anything you'd want to lock into a fixed-width page, it's RSS content.
Cripes. You'd think they'd at least let you set the page width, so if you wanted to lock the width down, you could produce PDFs for one specific device (eg. an e-book reader you own, or something like that). - rf32, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2Coming soon! RSS2DOC! RSS2PNG! RSS2GIF! RSS2TIFF! RSS2SMS! RSS2EMAIL! RSS2RSS2!
- dbr_onix, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1It'd be nice if it had something along the lines of lynx/w3m/links --dump along with each link.. Although maybe not very practical for some links (long pages, links that go to blogs then go to the acctual page etc), but it'd be nice to run it in the morning, transfer it to a laptop, and read, without the internet, on the train/bus etc on the way to school/work etc
Although it would probably be easier to write a script that wget's the pages, and changes links to the local cached version, skipping the PDF part..
- Ben - Teaboy, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1http://rss2pdf.com/index.php?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.digg.com%2Frss%2Fcontainertechnology.xml&src=rss&title=&img=0
- raynevandunem, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1It's not that your idea is completely useless (I take back my previous comment). It's just that the majority of us (*really*) hate Adobe Reader and its God-awful browser plugin, and try to find an HTML version of a PDF (via Google, for example) whenever the time comes.
Now some of the others on here, such as Matt2k above, are just being total bitches about it. - JAgostoni, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Sounds interesting to me ... more crapper reading material. Now if I could just wake my damn legs up so I can get off the pot...
- quasipalm, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Idiocy?
- abebob, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1One use that is questionably useful: When used with your own RSS feed, you could export your entire blog into a printer-friendly pdf for physical backup.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Why wouldn't you just print from your RSS reader to something like PDFCreator or whatever PDF printer exists on your platform?
- y2048, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1First link in there: http://digg.com/tech_news/PDF_TextOnline_PDF_Text_Extraction_in_Your_Browser
Those 2 will make an awesome combo. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Credit for doing it dude. Must of been fun developing this. I've created odd widgets before, even it's just for the sake of learning, it's fun.
- singlewall, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I agree...this is great for saving permanent copies of technical articles, white papers, etc. I would rather keep this content in my docs folder than rely on a bookmark or something.
- 32paule52, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1Hiya, am a new to Digg, but like the "concept" of taking information into PDF,for printing...... would like ask for feedback to an idea....what if a website owner could put icon/link on his site(webpage)- which would create a PDF version, on the Fly- for ease of printing/reading offline? -
Then maybe, taking it the next step,(another option) create a PDF based on the article (without menu links etc -just article, but formmated with site owner designed header and footer)
The pass on effect of printing hard copy for readding online, could bring repeat visitors and new visitors- would be valuable for longer articles- sort of "white paper on demand"
Thoughts? - rss2pdf, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Hey webtech, I wanted to thank you for digging a couple of my sites. I work hard on creating these site and in most cases I don't even recoup the costs of the domains and hosting for them, so it's nice for me to get a little attention once in awhile - I thank you :--)
- Matt2k, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1THIS IS SPAM
REPORT AS SPAM!!!
This is by the same website author who did the suspiciously google-ad ridden "Web based alarm clock" elsewhere on the main page.
All this guys sites are making front page, and they're NOT THAT GOOD - KnightCrawler, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Before all you guys criticize you need to realize that PDF is a very well established format and you can send a file to anybody and know they can read it the way it's suppose to be.
A lot web surfers don't know or care about RSS.
PS: I just sent a PDF to someone on a MAC...... - scratchpd, on 10/12/2007, -4/+4a niche-product. but maybe some people prefer to read off pdf, because its easier readable that way or something.
- rss2pdf, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Dude, this sincerely wasn't spam. I have one friggin' digg login and this is it. Don't react like a eunich at an orgy here.
- genealive, on 05/28/2009, -0/+0How about if you want to read your feeds on the train (no wifi or network) on your laptop or PDA? Just save them to PDF and load on a flash drive or SD card and you can read it. It's better them printing them like some people do with all their e-mails! People seem to forget that network is not everywhere or not accessible.
- DoodleFlash, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0RSS was a crap invention that only required a little mod of XML and PDFs also suck for the following reasons:
Reader takes to long to load
Really annoying
Not many good options
And theres a few more reasons it sucks. - pipp, on 10/12/2007, -3/+1From fast easy format, to slow and bulky.
Interesting, but seems to have limited usage. Like scartchpd said, nitch-product.
Buried....lame.... - mlyczba, on 10/12/2007, -6/+1Why didn't this article make it to the homepage? It looks to me more useful then RSS to PDF.... http://digg.com/software/CMS_RSS_Grabber
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