We’ve all been there: we’re about to enter an area with bad or no cell phone service, and we need access to a web page that has important information such as directions or a map. Currently, the browser in webOS is incapable of saving a webpage for offline viewing, and open browser cards will often times force a refresh of the page if left alone for too long.
The solution? PDFMyWeb ($0.99 in the App Catalog), a lightweight utility that captures web pages and saves them as a PDF file for offline viewing. The process is simple – type the desired URL into field, tap ‘Get PDF,’ and a PDF of the desired website is created in about a minute. The result is PDF file with highly-readable resolution-independent text and all the images on the page. In the case of the PreCentral front page, that PDF came to 1.5MB and six pages long.
Sure, one could simply perform a screenshot (opt + sym + p ) of the desired information for later viewing, but the advantage of PDFMyWeb is that it captures the entire webpage in one fell swoop, and that’s convenience worth paying for.