I'm sure others before me have wanted something like this, and I can't really 
come up with search terms unique enough to get reasonable results, so I'm 
turning to the list.

I'm looking for something as simple as a Perl script to something as a 
stand-alone windows program that will take web pages (locally stored perhaps) 
and 'compile' them into a single document. Canon sold one at one time (Win95 
era) - it would do it as whole pages, and shrink to fit (so it must have done 
them as images, but they were very clear), and I think you could tell it how 
deep you wanted or by individual pages. Evernote is close, but it is very 
limited in formatting output or editing. I have downloading down, so it can 
just work locally and not include tcpip code.

Basically, I need to take various docs which are in a format which has a "go to 
next page" link at the bottom of each page and link them into one doc for 
printing a pdf. Now, this could get ugly too, so an added bennie would be to 
only pull text (and maybe images linked to within the text) and create one html 
or pdf or text doc from them. The source html can be in a directory (maybe 
without links to each other, or ignored) so everything in the directory gets 
catted together, or it could follow links (local or on a net). I'd even be 
willing to piece something together at this point with multiple passes. We've 
got docs from way-back (and not so way back) when it was cool to put a 
paragraph on one page and make the user click to go forward. Very annoying 
IMHO. Now pdf docs are needed (I guess I'm not the only one who got annoyed). I 
would rather not have to find someone to retype, or go through almost as much 
writing a custom piece of s/w for this...

Thanks in advance.
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