Quote Originally Posted by linder View Post

We are still brainstorming the Forum to PDF idea (more than 10,000 threads to convert). There should be a way to read the information out of the SQL database and then write it to PDF.
Hi Friedrich,

Absolutely. Either out of the database or from the text dump generated by MySQL when you perform a backup.

I bought PageSnip and also use SnagIt from TechSmith. Neither of the two utilities are well suited for what I had to accomplish. Unlikely as it seems, the lowly Notepad served my purpose best, mainly because it strips out everything and saves only the raw text. You can Ctrl-C whatever you see on the monitor, do a Ctrl-V dump into Notepad, and end up with plain text. All the formatting is lost as well, of course, so that's where the work comes in.

If you're interested, take a look at the results at http://www.printfire.com/MFArchiv.pdf

Trying to save 10,000 posts that way? Not in my lifetime! You'd have to be very selective in what you would want to archive.

All the best,

Hal Heindel
http://www.printfire.com