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I want to get sections of the service manual for my vehicle and the only place I can get it now is through the Toyota Technical website. Neither Toyota, nor any other third party for that matter, sells a paper manual or even an electronic manual for my vehicle. They went to an all online paid service information website. You have to buy a set time subscription to view the content online and you can view or copy anything you want until the subscription runs out. What I want to do is somehow quickly save each webpage I'm viewing in some other format that I can store and make into a book or electronic file for future reference, like PDF pages or ??? Any suggestions on an easy and not too laborious method to do that?

in Chrome i can:
Print -> Destination -> Change -> Save as PDF

Which I guess allows you to easily save PDFs of anything. You may have a similar print-to-pdf option on your browser

Pretty much all major browsers will let you save a page to disk, although the chrome pdf option is probably the most compact/convenient method when you consider storage.

Firefox is looking pretty slim with their add-on selection for doing this. I do have "print to pdf" in Firefox, but it doesn't quite do what I want. Is Chrome the only other option? Someone somewhere suggested using Microsoft One Note, but I'm not sure of the file format and ease of use, knowing Microsoft.

There's a firefox addon i used to use called Spiderzilla. It can be kinda complex, but it's powerful. It'll mirror whole domains file-by-file onto your HDD if you set it to, or just one file, anything inbetween, you can be pretty specific.

I'm hesitant to suggest much beyond the Chrome save-to-pdf option because the (ridiculous information lockdown) password/login stuff on the website you're trying to save may complicate things.

Isn't one problem with save to pdf is that any links within the document are no longer functional?

i imagine so, as you'll be creating them on a document by document basis. The individual PDFs won't be able to link to one another.

How many pages do you think you've got? I thought this was going to be more like a linear kinda... car manual kinda thing. Less Links, more Page Numbers, gnomesane?
I figured you just wanted to get in there and save as much as you could as fast as you could, and then later on try to merge all the different PDFs together into one file. That's what i'd do, but that's because i'm stunningly incompetent.

OneNote: Ease of use is good, file format is proprietary though. It's not easily readable on, say, a Kindle - this kind of data is better kept as PDF.

hehe, hey can you literally just GIVE US your password/login info for the website? Putting it out there, and we'll see what we can cook up for you. Cloud source this problem
I dunno, first you might wanna check that we can't access any CC info.
Actually it's probably a terrible idea coz some jerk here will likely hijack your account and change the password.

These types of pointless informational paywalls piss me off, when they ask for login info (and as long as there's none of MY info being protected) - i will literally just use the name of the website as my little ★■◆● you to their pointless security policies. YEAH STICKIN IT TO THE MAN.



ps: What model is your car? I'll have a quick look around for a free manual.

Yeah, don't give out your username or password on an internet forum, like ever.

pff, that's only advice for if you use the same username/password for everything like a super chump.
Getting this manual is the ONLY use she's gonna have for that account.

may as well put this into the forum incase it helps others:


found a 2007 factory service manual.
http://daemon4x4.org/portal/downloads.php?dcid=17&p=2
search on that page for "FJ Cruiser Workshop Manual" and grab the torrent, it's got active seeders i checked.

Here is another link that apparently has both a 2007 Repair manual and Wiring manual.
http://www.ncttora.com/fsm/FJ/
http://www.ncttora.com/fsm/FJ/Toyota.FJCruiser.2007.zip

http://brockandbecca.com/files/fj/
i dunno, lots of stuff.

This may also be of use to you, an organised collection of non-official illustrated articles on FJ maintenance, from a FJ forum.
http://www.fjcruiserforums.com/forums/h ... first.html

i havn't had much luck finding a more recent official manual than 2007

Krom wrote:Yeah, don't give out your username or password on an internet forum, like ever.

Yep.

However, don't have a username or password.....yet. Something this time consuming where I have to sit at a computer screen hitting "save" over and over is a winter project.