Saving webpages as pdf and/or png in a batch manner? w/ Automator perhaps?

I have some old livejournals that I'd like to archive in some way. A long time ago for one of them, I used Paparazzi to create .png's for every single day's entries. This was slow but it got the job done. For another more recent endeavor with another journal, I was doing the same thing however then I saw the .pdf functionality. I thought, perhaps pdf's would be more useful because they are searchable, although in some ways I like having a plain png as almost a backup to the backup. I realized that I might want to go back to the other journal (which has like 9 years of content) and re-capture it into .pdf and do the same for this newer one... but I will not be taking the time to do this one by one again.
I tried Automator but Paparazzi apparently doesn't have Universal commands even though it has commands within Automator.
So I need another solution, with or without Paparazzi, that will allow me to at the least just type in all the urls (which will only be off by a digit or two for dates, thus saving time overall) and then letting it batch capture into a .pdf or .png.

I appreciate the tip, however it doesn't seem to be efficient. I downloaded and installed it, then I ran this sequence.
Get Current Webpage from Safari
Download URLs as PDFs (downloads file as a number for the day)
Add Text to Finder Items Names (Month- gets added before number)
Add Text to Finder Items Names (Year- gets added after number)
So this works... but only once. The program needs to be closed and re-opened as a workflow for it to download a webpage again properly. It'll create just blank white pdf's otherwise. Then if I make it a stand alone application it gives me an error about it not being universal.
A shame but I appreciated the help.
Does anyone else have any ideas???

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