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PDF to RSS services


Ulrich Eckardt has released a cute German impression of Tom Churm's RSS2PDF.com. Ulrich's does seem to lack OPML and multi-feed support right now though, whereas Tom is on the ball. FeedDigest is considering doing some cross-promotional work with Tom, but it's reassuring to see that the RSS industry is as healthy as ever with the multiple ways to reinvent the wheel. Anyway, check out Tom's RSS to PDF service, it's easy, quick, and, if you need to convert RSS to PDF.. useful!




August 04, 2005 | Posted by peter | Comments (4)
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Hey Peter,

Thanks a lot for the mention!

For those of you who don't know Peter, he's probably one of the nicest guys on the net. He was the first one to offer me a mail of congratulations when http://rss2pdf.com went online and he's been very generous in spending a lot of his time giving me invaluable advice and encouragement as I go along [read: mentor].

Also regarding Ulrich's similar service: I was peeved to discover he registered a similar domain [ instead of at least coming up with something a BIT different ] but, hey, he's got the right to do it. And I'm not claiming that the technology behind rss2pdf.com is anything particularly ground-breaking...

So the more the merrier!

I look forward to some friendly competition with Ulrich, and with a little competition we can hopefully come up with some better stuff for the end-user.

May the best service win!

Posted by: Tom Churm at August 4, 2005 08:27 PM

FYI - Peter, I just added embedded images, when there are images in the feeds.

Later I'll make this optional through a querystring.

Have a good weekend,

Tom

Posted by: Tom Churm at August 5, 2005 04:03 PM

Hi Peter,

I just updated http://rss2pdf.com with the 'OPML As Feed' idea that you mentioned to me.

Now instead of parsing all the feeds in an OPML file you can simply create a PDF from your OPML file 'as a feed'.

This may make the uses of http://rss2pdf.com even more apparent, because the links generated in the OPML file enable you to quickly navigate to the PDF for any of the Feeds in your list. (And, using the 'Back' button on your browser, you can simply return back to your OPML file again.)

Kinda hard to explain...please take a test-drive:
http://rss2pdf.com?url=http://opml.rss2pdf.com/yahoo1.opml

Posted by: Tom Churm at August 9, 2005 11:03 AM

Hi,

with feed2pdf.org you can send a feed to some friends via email. Try it.

uli
http://www.feed2mail.com
http://www.rss2pdf.org

Posted by: uli at August 10, 2005 08:33 PM

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