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Case 03 — Records

Email a webpage to yourself as a PDF

Paste the page's URL below. SnapMySite renders the entire page — top to bottom, exactly as it looks in a browser — converts it to a PDF, and emails it to you in about thirty seconds. No printing dialog, no extension, no app.

Full-page PDF + PNG · timestamped · $1 gets you 5 captures

Why not just print to PDF?

You can — and for simple pages it's fine. But browser print dialogs reflow the page for paper: sidebars vanish, layouts collapse into a single column, backgrounds get stripped, and long pages break awkwardly across page boundaries. What you save often looks nothing like what you saw.

SnapMySite doesn't print the page; it photographs it. A real Chromium browser loads the URL with its own fonts, images, and styling, and the PDF preserves the page as rendered. And because the capture arrives by email, it's automatically dated, searchable, and filed somewhere you'll actually find it again — your inbox.

What people file this way

Every capture is on the record

Alongside the PDF you get a full-page PNG, a permanent hosted link, the exact UTC timestamp of capture, and a SHA-256 hash of each file. If you ever need to show that the document hasn't been touched since capture, the hash does that.

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