Ever wished if you could download your favorite blog or website in professional PDF format for offline reading? Yes this is possible. There are couple of websites that offer such service for free, where you specify the feed link of your blog and create a newspaper version, good for offline reading or reading on fly.
Below we introduce you to few such services, along with there pros and cons.
We tested all the following services on common settings of size A4 and allowing embedded images. Though some of these sites are not plainly for this purpose, we reviewed only newspaper PDF section of these sites.
FiveFilters
Fivefilters PDF newspaper, accepts feed or OPML url of your blog or site and creates a two column newspaper print version of your content.
pros:
customized title to your paper, clear font and spacing layout, properly aligns text and images within two column layout, no registration required, instant download.
cons:
no inbuilt support for managing multiple feeds
Tabbloid
Tabbloid is another revolutionary service that accepts feeds of the sites and delivers to your email box as per your settings.
pros:
schedule pdf email delivery as per your time zone, no registration required, manage multiple feeds
cons:
very small font, text wrap sometimes garble
FeedJournal
FeedJournal is free service to convert online content for offline reading.
Pros:
categorize your feeds, customize layout to suite all different readers like Kindle, Sony reader, iRex, customize newspaper language like Hebrew, Greek, Arabic, etc., default setting to generate PDF for only newer content
cons:
free version shows very cluttered text, text and images were disordered
Feedbooks
Feedbooks offer free ebooks download in Kindle, iLiad, iPhone, PDF friendly format. Also you can create your own PDF newspaper version of blog or website in available formats.
pros:
manage multiple feeds, large clear font.
cons:
no images, no customized column layout.