Guide

Create a Professional PDF from Any Website

Transform messy web pages into beautifully formatted, presentation-ready PDFs with one click. Five professional templates for every use case.

Free — 3 PDFs per month. No credit card required.

The problem

The problem with browser PDFs

When you press Ctrl+P or use "Save as PDF" in your browser, the result is not something you would share in a meeting or attach to a report. Browser-generated PDFs carry all the baggage of the original webpage, and none of the polish you need for professional output.

Ugly headers and footers

Every page stamped with the URL, date, and "Page 1 of 3" in tiny grey text. These automatic headers and footers look unprofessional and cannot be removed without third-party tools or obscure print dialog settings that most people never find.

Ads and navigation included

Browser PDF captures everything visible on the page — sidebar ads, cookie banners, navigation menus, newsletter popups, and social share buttons. Your "saved article" is buried under website chrome that has nothing to do with the content you wanted.

Broken layouts

Multi-column layouts collapse unpredictably. Sticky headers repeat on every page. Fixed-position elements overlap body text. Interactive components render as empty boxes. The PDF looks nothing like the webpage you were reading.

No typography control

Browser PDF uses whatever fonts the website loaded, at whatever sizes and spacing the site chose. You get inconsistent typography across PDFs from different sites — no unified look, no professional consistency, no control over readability.

Not presentation-ready

The resulting PDF is a screenshot dump, not a document. You would not hand it to a client, attach it to a proposal, or include it in a research paper. It looks like exactly what it is: a hasty printout of a webpage.

Templates

5 templates for every occasion

Each template is designed for a specific use case, with curated fonts, spacing, and layout choices that make your content look intentional and polished.

Clean

Modern editorial style with Fraunces headings and Instrument Sans body text. Warm, readable, and elegant — ideal for blog posts, articles, and general-purpose reading. This is the default template and works well for most content.

Minimal

Maximum whitespace with a typography-focused design. Strips away all visual noise and lets the content breathe. Perfect for long-form reading, essays, and content where you want nothing to compete with the words on the page.

Corporate

Professional layout with structured borders and clear section divisions. Designed for business documents, client deliverables, and internal reports. Pairs well with custom branding — add your logo, headers, and company colors for a polished corporate identity.

Academic

Scholarly formatting with clear heading hierarchy and structured citations. Optimized for research papers, technical documentation, and educational content. Generous margins for annotations and a type system that respects academic conventions.

Dark Mode

Light text on a dark background, designed for developers and anyone who prefers low-light reading. Excellent for saving code documentation, technical references, and API docs. Easy on the eyes when reviewing PDFs on screen rather than printing them.

Walkthrough

How it works

Three steps to a professional PDF. The entire process takes less than 30 seconds.

1

Navigate to any webpage

Open any webpage in Chrome — a news article, blog post, documentation page, research paper, or product listing. Pretty PDF works with any website, including sites that require authentication. The extension captures what you see in your browser, so if you can read it, you can convert it.

2

Choose your template and settings

Click the Pretty PDF Printer icon in your Chrome toolbar. Select one of five professional templates — Clean, Minimal, Corporate, Academic, or Dark Mode. Choose your page size and any additional settings. If you have saved print profiles, select the one you want for instant configuration.

3

Download your professional PDF

Click Generate. The extension captures the page content, strips away ads, navigation, and website clutter, applies your chosen template with professional typography and layout, and delivers a clean, presentation-ready PDF. It downloads automatically, ready to share, attach, or archive.

Pro feature

Customize your brand

Pro users can transform any template into a branded document that carries your organization's visual identity.

Add your company logo to the header of every PDF you generate. Set custom header and footer text — your company name, document classification, confidentiality notices, or page numbering. Apply your brand colors to create a consistent look across all documents your team produces.

The Corporate template is especially well-suited for branded output. Its structured borders and clear section divisions provide a professional framework that pairs naturally with company logos and brand colors. But branding features work with any template — a Minimal template with your logo in the header creates an understated, elegant branded document.

Save your branding configuration as a print profile and share it across your team. Everyone uses the same logo placement, the same header text, the same color scheme. Every PDF your team generates is consistent and on-brand, regardless of which webpage was the source.

The transformation

Before and after

The difference between a browser PDF and a Pretty PDF is the difference between a rough draft and a finished document.

A news article saved with Ctrl+P arrives as a cluttered mess: banner ads between paragraphs, a sticky navigation bar repeated on every page, cookie consent overlays, social sharing buttons, recommended articles sidebar, and the entire page wrapped in the site's navigation chrome. The URL is stamped across every footer. The fonts are whatever the site loaded, at whatever size the responsive layout chose for your window width.

The same article through Pretty PDF is a clean, single-column document with professional typography. The headline is prominent, the body text is set at a comfortable reading size, images are positioned with proper spacing, and there is nothing on the page that does not belong to the article itself. No ads, no navigation, no clutter.

This transformation applies across content types. Technical documentation gains clear heading hierarchy and properly formatted code blocks. Blog posts become readable essays with consistent typography. Research papers get academic formatting with structured sections. Product pages become clean reference sheets. In every case, the content is preserved while the website chrome is removed and replaced with intentional, professional design.

Efficiency

Print profiles for one-click use

Save your favorite template and settings as reusable profiles. Switch between configurations in one click instead of adjusting settings every time.

Work Reports

Corporate template, A4 page size, company logo in header, "Internal" in footer. One click to generate consistently branded reports from any webpage — meeting notes, competitor research, market analysis, or industry news.

Study Notes

Academic template, Letter size, wide margins for handwritten annotations. Save research papers, lecture notes, and reference material in a format designed for focused study and easy review.

Quick Save

Clean template, default settings, no customizations. The fastest path from webpage to PDF — click the icon, select your Quick Save profile, and the PDF generates instantly with sensible defaults. Perfect for casual archiving and everyday use.

Frequently asked questions about professional PDFs from websites

Yes. Pretty PDF Printer offers five built-in templates — Clean, Minimal, Corporate, Academic, and Dark Mode — that each give your PDF a distinct professional look. You can also choose your page size, and Pro users can add custom headers, footers, company logos, and branded colors for a fully personalized result. Save your preferred configuration as a print profile for one-click reuse.
Pretty PDF Printer includes five templates. Clean is a modern editorial style with Fraunces and Instrument Sans fonts, ideal for articles and blog posts. Minimal uses maximum whitespace with a typography-focused design for distraction-free reading. Corporate provides a professional layout with structured borders for business documents. Academic offers scholarly formatting with clear heading hierarchy for research and educational content. Dark Mode renders light text on a dark background, designed for developers and on-screen reading.
Yes, Pro users can customize PDFs with company branding. This includes adding your company logo to the header, setting custom header and footer text, and applying branded colors. The Corporate template is especially well-suited for branded business documents, but branding features work with any template. You can save your branding configuration as a print profile so every PDF your team generates is consistent and on-brand.
Each template uses carefully selected font pairings that are embedded directly in the PDF. The Clean template uses Fraunces for headings and Instrument Sans for body text. Other templates use their own curated font combinations chosen for readability and professional appearance. Because all fonts are embedded in the PDF file, your document looks exactly the same on every device, operating system, and PDF reader — the recipient does not need to have the fonts installed.
Custom template creation is not currently available, but the five built-in templates cover a wide range of use cases — from casual reading to formal business documents to developer-friendly dark mode. Pro users can further customize their output with branded headers, footers, logos, and colors within any of the existing templates. This combination of template selection and branding customization provides flexibility for most professional use cases.

Create professional PDFs from any website

Five templates, one-click profiles, and optional branding. Turn any webpage into a document you would be proud to share.