Tuesday, October 09, 2012

PDF Books from Wikipedia

Wikipedia is just brilliant.

One of the great features of this site, I liked was, the ability of combine a few pages of our interest and convert it to a PDF file. This can be used for either

  • later reading
  • sending to customer.

This blog post is showing how to create a PDF of some of our like minded pages. Let us say we need to create a PDF of some information on Storage Area Networking, Fibre Channel and SCSI.

Step 1.

1. Goto the page of Storage Are Networking

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2. Choose Create a Book

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3. Start Book Creator

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5. Goto the next page on Fibre Channel Protocol

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6. Add this page also.

7. Goto the SCSI page and add it as well. You should now be able to see 3 pages.

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8. Click on Show Book, and on the next screen enter the title.

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9. On the right click on download

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10. There are many formats to choose from. Let us say you choose PDF and Download.

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Ultimately, you get a Download link. (Press F5 to refresh)

The book is ready a PDF file.

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