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'I visited several webpages which contain the subjects that are useful for me, but it is impossible to convert them to PDFs so that I can easily print them or send them to others. What can I do?'
It will be a good idea to create the file in PDF format, because PDF can be supported by many platforms and be printed without worrying about format change. So if you're wondering how to save a web page as a PDF, you've come to the right place. Here we will share tips on how to print webpage to PDF with PDFelement Pro.
Part 1: How to Convert a Webpage to a PDF on Mac
PDFelement Pro for Mac - The Best PDF Converter
Here I will show you an easy way to do the web page to PDF conversion by using PDFelement Pro. This PDF tool allows you to save a webpage as a PDF and create PDFs from Image, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and even existing PDF files. If you have several webpages, you can use this program to combine the files into one page for conveniently viewing. In addition to print a webpage to PDF, you will be able to add, edit, delete and modify text content and graphics in PDF format. You will also be able to convert PDF files to Word documents. What's important is that the output PDF document will be well kept with original format and layout. Just try it out.
Why Choose This PDFelement Pro:
- Easily convert PDF to images, Word, Excel, PPT, EPUB and more formats..
- Create PDF from other formats and create PDF forms easily.
- Print ann manage your PDF files with ease.
- Combine multiple files into PDF and split PDF into several files.
- Edit the text, images, links in your PDF easily.
Step-by-step Tutorial to Print Web Page to PDF on Mac
Step 1. Open the form template (Word Document) that you want to make into a fillable PDF form.
Step 2. Open the webpage you want to save. Click on the 'Tools' icon. Choose the 'Print' menu and click on the 'Print' command.
Step 3.In the pop-up window, Choose 'PDFelement Pro' and click 'Print'.
Step 4. The PDFelement Pro program will pop up. You will be able to edit the webpage via the opened program. You can add, delete text on the page, or you can mark up or annotate the page.
Step 5. When you have finished the editing, go to the 'File' menu, click 'Save As'. The 'Save As' dialog box will pop up. Choose the destination folder, key in the file name and click 'Save'. Then you can turn a Webpage into PDF files easily.
Part 2: Print Webpage to PDF on iPad for Free
A small feature that is lacking on iOS is the ability to locally print to PDF without the use of any third party applications on your iPad. While the Apple App Store has many reliable iPad apps to virtually print webpages on Safari. Unlike Google Chrome which has a built-in feature, Safari doesn't have any existing tools that can be used by the browser. You can, however, use a great trick that is absolutely free! Read on to find out how to use the bookmarklet trick.
How to Print to PDF on iPad
Step 1. Bookmark the webpage by simply click on the toolbar button and select ‘Bookmark'.
Step 2.When prompted, change the title to 'Save as PDF' or 'Convert to PDF' in the title field. Save the bookmarked page to the 'Bookmark Bars'. Click 'Save'.
Step 3. Edit the bookmark. Click the 'Bookmarks' button and select 'Bookmarks Bar'. Click on the 'Edit' button and select the 'Save as PDF' or 'Convert to PDF' page.
Step 4. Edit the address field of the bookmarked page by copying and pasting the following code: javascript:pdf_url=location.href;location.href='http://pdfmyurl.com?url='+escape(pdf_url)
Step 5. To save the bookmarked page to PDF, click on the 'Save as PDF' or 'Convert to PDF' page again. It will be automatically converted to PDF and the browser will show the generated PDF page. Click on the opened PDF file so that the 'Open In' menu will appear. You can proceed with saving the page in your preferred PDF app.
Troubleshooting on Printing to PDF on iPad
Customization of the output PDF file
Unlike many other ways to print to PDF on the iPad, manipulating the code above is the only way you can customize the output file. You can change the page layout parameters, conversion parameters, outline options or special email feature by adding certain parameters to the code.
Part 3: Print Webpage to PDF with Chrome Plug-in
There are plenty of PDF printing software and online conversion services that will allow you to save webpages to PDF files. However, by using Google Chrome as your internet browser, you will not be needing any of these additional tools to do the job as the browser has a plug-in built into it.
How to Print to PDF with Chrome Plug-in
Step 1. On the webpage that you are viewing in Google Chrome, click on Chrome's 'Customize & Control' icon. A menu list will drop down. Click on 'Print'.
Step 2.A split-screen will pop up with a print preview of the webpage (right side) and the print options panel (left side). Alternatively, you can skip the previous step by clicking 'Ctrl+P' (on Mac, click on 'Command+P').
Step 3. You can customize the output file settings. Once you are ready, click 'Save'. A dialog box will appear. Choose the destination, enter the filename of your choice and click 'Save'. The website will be saved in PDF format.
Troubleshooting on Chrome Plug-in to Print to PDF
1. The default split-screen does not show 'Save as PDF'
In the split-screen, click the 'Change…' button in the 'Destination' section. You should be able to find the 'Save as PDF' option along with the list of installed printers. Click on 'Save as PDF' and it will redirect you to the split-screen. Follow the same steps thereafter.
2. Cannot save webpage to PDF
If you are unable to save the webpage you are viewing, you may have an older version of Google Chrome or some parts of the browser are missing. To solve this, click on Chrome's 'Customize & Control' icon. A menu list will drop down. Click on 'About Google Chrome'. It will automatically update or patch the browser's software.
Part 4: Print Webpage to PDF with Firefox Add-on
The second most popular internet browser does not have any built-in capabilities to print a webpage to PDF. However, you can install an add-on to your Firefox browser that will allow you to print any webpage or browser tab as a PDF document. We suggest using PrintPDF which has been proven to be very reliable among Firefox users.
How to Print A Webpage to PDF with Firefox Add-on
Step 1. Launch Firefox and click on the ‘Open Menu' icon. A dropdown menu will open. Click 'Add-ons'.
Step 2.In the search box, key in 'PrintPDF' and press 'Enter'.
Step 3. Once the search result appears, click 'Install' to start the installation process. Restart Firefox after the installation process is complete.
Step 4. To print a webpage, click on the 'Open Menu' icon. Click on 'PDFize'. A dialog box will appear, and then choose the destination, key in the filename and click 'Save'. Done!
Troubleshooting on using Firefox Add-on to print to PDF
1. Cannot find the add-on
If you cannot find the 'PDFize' icon under the 'Open Menu' icon, click on 'Customize'. You will be able to find the 'PDFize' icon on the left side of the screen. Drag the icon to the right side of the screen so that you will be able to access the add-on tool easily.
2. Firefox keeps on crashing when using PrintPDF
There is a possibility than once you start using the add-on, the internet browser may crash multiple times. If this happens, it may be because your Firefox is an older version. You can recover from this by reinstalling the internet browser.
Part 5: Print Webpage to PDF in Internet Explorer
While not many people use Internet Explorer (IE), it is still considered as one of the most used internet browsers. By default, the current IE versions to date do not have any PDF capabilities built into it – you will not be able to both create and display PDF files. However, to print a webpage as a PDF file in IE, you can do so by installing a third party virtual printer like PDFelement Pro.
How to Print A webpage to PDF with Internet Explorer
Step 1. Install a third party virtual printer like PDFelement Pro. And launch the program.
Step 2. Open the website and click on the 'Tools' icon. Choose the 'Print' menu and click on the 'Print' command.
Step 3. Choose 'PDFelement Pro' and click 'Print'. Choose the destination folder, key in the filename and click 'Save'. You will get the output in PDF format.
Troubleshooting on using Internet Explorer to print to PDF
1. Network Print Sharing
If you are used to share physical printers with your colleagues, forget about the idea of using CutePDF on a network sharing basis. You will need to install the software locally on every device.
2. Jumbled Text Characters
By default, CutePDF uses the 'Substitute with Device Font' setting. If your PDF output file seems to be missing some characters or if they are jumbled up, you can change the printer properties under the 'Advanced Properties' setting by using the embedded fonts setting.
Can’t make the
Starting in Chrome 73, Progressive Web Apps are now supported on all desktop platforms, including Chrome OS, Linux, Mac, and Windows.#ChromeDevSummit
this year? Catch all the content (and more!) on the livestream, or join your peers for a CDS Extended event at a hosted location nearby. To learn more, check out the Chrome Dev Summit 2019 website. Desktop progressive web apps can be 'installed' on the user's device much likenative apps. They're fast. Feel integrated because they launched inthe same way as other apps, and run in an app window, without an address baror tabs. They're reliable because service workers can cache all of theassets they need to run. And they create an engaging experience for users.
Why build Desktop Progressive Web Apps?
Mobile has driven a lot of the evolution of Progressive Web Apps. But whilethe growth of mobile has been so strong, desktop usage is still growing.Mobile phone use peaks in the morning and evening, and tablet also hassignificantly higher use in the evening. Desktop usage is more evenlydistributed throughout the day than mobile usage. It has significant useduring the day when most people are at work and at their desks.
Desktop Progressive Web Apps run in their own window. Having thatinstalled, native feel, is important to users. Desktop Progressive Web Appsare launched from the same place as other desktop apps, and they runin an app window, without tabs or an address bar. They look and feel likeother apps on the desktop.
Desktop Progressive Web Apps are fast and reliable. By using a serviceworker to pre-cache content, your PWA will start consistently fast because iteliminates any network bottlenecks. Even a user with a high speed connectionwill appreciate how fast a PWA consistently starts.
For apps that require anetwork connection, a service worker is still valuable. They give you completecontrol over the online and offline experience. For example, if the users isoffline, you could show cached data, or provide your own custom offline page.
Getting started
Getting started isn't any different than what you're already doing for existingprogressive web apps; it's not like this is a whole new class of apps.All of the work you've done already still applies.Service workers make it worksfast, and reliable; Web Push and Notificationskeep users updated, and it can be ‘installed’ with theadd to home screen prompt. The onlyreal difference is that instead of running in a browser tab, it's running inan app window.
Design considerations
There are some unique considerations you need to take into account whenbuilding Desktop Progressive Web Apps, things that don’t necessarily apply toProgressive Web Apps on mobile devices.
The app window
With an app window, there are no tabs or address bar, it’s just your app. It’soptimized to support the needs of apps, with more flexible window organizationand manipulation compared to browser tabs. App windows make it easy to uni-task with the window in full screen, or multi-task with multiple windows open.App windows also make it really easy to switch between apps using an appswitcher or a keyboard shortcut such as alt-tab.
As you’d expect, the app window has the standard title bar icons to minimize,maximize and close the window. The title bar is also themed based on the
theme_color
defined in theweb app manifest. And your app should bedesigned to take up the full width of the window.Within the app window, there’s also the app menu (the button with the threedots), that gives you access to information about the app, makes it easy toaccess the URL, print the page, change the page zoom, or open the app inyour browser.
Use responsive design
Apps on the desktop have access to significantly larger screen real-estate.Don’t just pad your content with extra margin, but use that additional spaceby creating new breakpoints for wider screens. Some applications reallybenefit from that wider view.
When thinking about your break-points, think about how users will use yourapp and how they may resize it. In a weather app, a large window might show a7 day forecast, then, as the window gets smaller, instead of shrinkingeverything down, it might show a 5 day forecast. As it continues to getsmaller, content might shuffle around, and it's been optimized for thesmaller display.
For some apps, a mini-mode might be really helpful. This weather app showsonly the current conditions. A music player might only show me the currentsong and the buttons to change to the next song.
You can take this idea of responsive design to the next level to supportconvertibles like the Pixelbook or the Surface. When switched to tablet mode,these devices make the active window full screen, and depending on how theuser holds the device, may be either landscape or portrait.
Focus on getting responsive design right - and that’s what matters here.Whether the user has resized the window, or the device has done so becauseit's switched to tablet mode, responsive design is critical to a successfuldesktop progressive web app.
The app window on desktop opens up so many new possibilities. Work with yourdesigner and take a responsive approach that adds new breakpoints for largerscreens, supports landscape or portrait views, works when fullscreen - ornot, and works nicely with virtual keyboards.
Prompting the user to install
Installing a desktop progressive web app, known as Add to Homescreen onmobile, works the same.
If Chrome's PWA install criteriaare met, Chrome will fire a
beforeinstallprompt
event that you can use toprompt the user to installed your PWA. In the event handler,save the event, and update your user interface to indicate to the user thatthey can add your app to the home screen. For example, Spotify's desktopProgressive Web App, adds an 'Install App' button, just above the usersprofile name.See Add to Home Screen for moreinformation about how to handle the event, update the UI and show the installprompt.
What's next?
In addition to supporting additional platforms, we're also looking at:
- Omnibox badging - An icon in the address bar to let users know that yourPWA can be installed.
- Keyboard shortcuts - Adding support for keyboard shortcuts, so you canprovide your own functionality.
- Badging for the launch icon - Let theuser know about important events that you don’t want to display a fullnotification for.
- Link capturing - Opening the installed PWA when the user clicks on alink handled by that app.
Learn more
Check the 2018 Google I/O talk, PWAs: building bridges to mobile, desktop,and native, it covers everything from Desktop PWAs to, upcoming changes toadd to home screen prompts, and more.
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