Converting
How to Save a Web Page as a PDF
Capture an article, receipt or booking confirmation as a clean PDF — without the navigation, cookie banners and ads that usually come with it.
Saving a page as PDF is how you keep a receipt, an order confirmation, a booking, or an article that might not be there next year. The difficulty is that a modern page carries a great deal you do not want to keep.
The quickest route
- 1Open the page and press Ctrl+P, or Cmd+P on a Mac.
- 2Set the destination to Save as PDF.
- 3Dismiss cookie banners and pop-ups first — they print exactly as they appear.
- 4Check the preview, adjust margins or scale if content is being cut off, and save.
This works in every desktop browser, needs nothing installed, and renders the page as you are seeing it.
Getting rid of the clutter
Print output on most sites is an afterthought, so you get the header, the sidebar, the newsletter prompt and a page of footer links. Two things help a great deal:
- Reader mode — available in Safari, Firefox and Edge — strips a page down to the article text and images, and printing from it produces a genuinely clean document.
- Dismiss every overlay before printing. A cookie banner covering the first paragraph will cover it in the PDF too.
Pages that will not print properly
| Problem | What to do |
|---|---|
| Only the first page saves | Content is in a fixed-height scrolling box; try reader mode |
| Images missing | They load lazily — scroll the whole page first so everything loads |
| Text cut off at the right | Switch to landscape or reduce the print scale |
| Endless blank pages | A tall empty element; reader mode usually removes it |
When you need it to look like your own design
If you control the markup — an invoice template, a certificate, a report you generate — you get a far better result by rendering your own HTML to PDF rather than printing someone's page. You choose the page size, the margins and where the breaks fall, instead of negotiating with a stylesheet written for screens.
Make the archive worth having
A saved page is only useful if you can find it again. Give the file a name that says what it is and when — "flight-booking-2026-09-14.pdf" rather than "document.pdf" — and run OCR if what you saved turned out to be an image rather than text.
Do it now
HTML to PDF
Convert web pages to PDF. It runs in this browser tab — your file is not uploaded anywhere.
Open HTML to PDFFrequently asked questions
How do I save a web page as a PDF on my phone?+
In Safari, use the share sheet and pick Options → PDF before saving to Files. In Chrome on Android, use Share → Print and choose Save as PDF.
Why is my saved page missing its colours?+
Background graphics are disabled by default in the print dialogue. Turn them on.
Can I save a page that needs a login?+
Yes — print while you are logged in. The browser prints what you can see.
How do I remove ads from the saved PDF?+
Print from reader mode, which strips the page to its article content before rendering.