Page to PDF is a free Chrome extension that turns the tab you're looking at into a real vector PDF — whole page, one element, or the article on its own. Text stays selectable, links keep working, and the page never leaves your browser. Deeper breakdown: the web page to PDF converter page.
Pick the mode that fits what you're saving. Everything is vector, everything stays selectable, everything happens locally.
Captures the entire page — even what's still hiding under infinite scroll. Auto-scrolls to trigger lazy-loaded images, hides fixed headers and floating bars, then stitches everything into one clean multi-page PDF.
Click any block on screen — a card, a chart, a table, a recipe — and export just that. The picker walks the DOM with arrow keys so you nail the exact node, with optional margins and border control.
Strips sidebars, ads, comments, popups. Powered by Mozilla Readability — the same engine Firefox uses for Reader View. Clean serif typography, narrow column, adjustable font size.
Cookie banners, sticky headers, "subscribe" overlays, chat widgets — point and delete them before export. Ctrl-Z to undo, Esc to cancel. Works on top of any other mode.
Point at cookie banners, sticky sidebars, newsletter boxes or chat widgets and remove them before the PDF is generated.
The mode sits on top of every export flow, so you can clean up first, undo with Ctrl-Z if needed, then capture exactly what you want.
Three steps, once. After that it's one click per tab.
Install from the Web Store and pin the icon next to your address bar. No account, no email, no onboarding tour.
An article, a dashboard, a receipt, an internal wiki. Log in first if it needs it — the converter reads the page your browser already rendered.
Full page, element, or article. The PDF opens in the built-in viewer the moment it's ready, so you check it before it hits the disk.
To convert page to PDF in a hurry: open it, click the extension, save. Chrome's own Cmd+P works too — it just gives up on lazy images, infinite scroll and sticky headers.
Want the long version? Read the step-by-step guide on how to convert a web page to PDF.
Different jobs, same instinct: what you're reading might not be there tomorrow, and a link is not a document.
Terms that quietly changed, a listing before it was edited, a policy page on the day it mattered. A saved PDF is dated, offline and out of anyone else's control.
Flights, hotels, invoices, order summaries. Element mode takes the confirmation block and leaves the twelve upsell banners around it behind.
A long read for a flight or a commute, in Article mode, at a font size you actually chose. No connection, no cookie wall, no autoplaying video.
Half the people you work with can't open your internal Confluence. They can open a PDF. So can the client who is not in your SSO.
Sources vanish. Students, journalists and analysts save the page as they saw it, with the text still searchable inside the file.
The rendered state of a broken page attached to a ticket, or a design in progress marked up and shared. Beats a screenshot nobody can search.
Saving one page is the common case. If you're after a whole site, read the honest version on the website to PDF page — and if the words you use are “download web to PDF” or “internet page to PDF”, that's the web to PDF page.
Text stays selectable. Links still click through. File sizes stay small. Screen readers, full-text search and your future self can all still get at the content.
Most tools that promise to turn a webpage to PDF rasterize it into one giant image. This one renders through Chrome's own print engine, so what lands on disk is a document — copy-pasteable, searchable, sharp at 400% zoom.
Every export opens in a clean viewer with zoom, page count, file size and one-click download. No surprises after you commit to disk.
Reopen any past export from the viewer's history — the file stays cached locally so you don't have to re-render it if you just want to take another look.
Most online "save to PDF" tools upload your URL or your full HTML to their servers. This one doesn't. Generation happens inside Chrome.
That matters when you're saving logged-in dashboards, internal tools, receipts, or anything else that should never end up on a third-party server. No account, no tracking, no cloud.
HTML, cookies, page content — all rendered locally. Nothing uploaded.
Free forever, no signup. Convert a web page to PDF in one click and keep a copy nobody can edit, paywall or delete.
