How to print a rendered website to pdf or vector graphics?

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Published on 2012-09-26T08:32:41Z Indexed on 2012/09/26 9:41 UTC
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This is a crucial question to many:

Searching the web, I have found several command line tools that allow you to convert a HTML-document to a PDF-document, however they all seem to use their own, and rather incomplete rendering engine, resulting in poor quality

How can you print the rendered output of a modern web-browser to pdf, (and/or svg) whilst retaining as much vector graphics as possible?

There is a solution called: webkit-pdf (which renders everything to bitmap graphics)

I am looking for options, alternatives, suggestions perhaps even a printer-driver or webservices?

Thanks

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