Website to single PDF file

[emil-peters]

Hi there,

Using quarto preview . --to pdf I can generate PDF files for all qmd files.
My end goal is that all of these should be merged into a single PDF.

I also have tried using a second profile, and transforming my website into a book. There I can generate a single PDF, but the issue I then get is that all my website's listing are no longer displayed. So all these pages are missing from the PDF.

What would be the best solution to this issue?

[rgaiacs]

Dear @emil-peters, would a post process work for you? For example, you can merge the PDF files for all .qmd files using pdftk.

[mcanouil]

Indeed, this is probably the easiest path.
Otherwise "complex" profiles using different formats will be required and for that it's highly dependent on what's your goal and what are you files.

[emil-peters]

Thanks for the feedback, we are generating qmd files through python containing huge amount of images and pages (~1500 pages).
It would be a lot of work to combine all these things ourselves.

We decided to go with the approach of just providing the website (generated html), and generating a small single page PDF containing the most important things. As sort of an overview.

If in the future it would be possible to generate a fully linked PDF based on a website and all it's links, please let me know.

[mcanouil]

I think it's unlikely à feature to turn a website to a pdf will ever happen.

Either, setup a profile with another format and render both, and use post-render feature (as suggested) from Quarto to post process the generated files.