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Old 05-04-2006, 12:44 PM   #3
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RSS to PDF conversion

If you use RSS news syndication, you will probably want to get these news into your iLiad for convenience. I have checked a few ways to do this:

1: RSSOwl is a news aggregator that lets you export the news to three formats: (x)html, PDF and rtf. Two of these already have viewers available on the iLiad. It's the one I recommend the least because the PDF generated is ugly and displays HTML code if the feed is in that format (I tried teleBlog's feed and it doesn't look too great). Then I tested the html exported file which looks great on the browser, but failed to validate as proper XHTML (also a problem with an HTML feed since it's not properly escaped). It might still display on the iLiad, but only Henrycat can test that now. I'll try to upload the file later in case Henry is interested.

2: rss2pdf is a site (located here ) where you can request for a feed to be converted into PDF. You can easily create bookmarks in your favorite that generate an updated PDF that looks much better than the one you get with RSSOwl (at least with HTML based feeds). You simply create a link that starts with http://rss2pdf.com?url= and ends with the url of the feed you want converted (like http://www.teleread.org/blog/wp-rss2.php for instance). The resulting link would be this . This site also allows to use aggregated feeds in OPML format (which is like a collection of feeds). )

3: Adobe Acrobat: for those owning the tool (this is not the reader which is free, but the PDF editor that you pay to use). They claim to have a tool named 'tracker' which is a news aggregator with incorporated PDF exporting. So, like RSSOwl but not free and probably with good output quality (but that's just my guess).
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