GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 164385
Support saving to PDF
Last modified: 2012-09-16 01:43:01 UTC
As a kind of replacement for saving "Web page complete" it would be great to offer PDF as a format for saving entire web pages. Comments?
This should be possible once printing uses cairo.
Once we have this, it should be trivial to add thumbnails support for history/bookmarks. Evince already can do that already.
Wouldn't it be possible/easier to setup a "PDF printer" and print to it? (or at least a workaround in the meantime) I realise from the user point of view the idea would be "Save to $FORMAT" and that is a little weird to think of printing to PDF but I cannot tell if user thinks of PDF in terms of printing or not so apologise in advance if the user i an expert and understands the (fairly arbitrary technical) distinction but hopefully the suggestion might lead to short term workaround that give him the results he really wants. Also the task is described above as "saving entire web pages" so support for WAR (a web page in a single .war Web ARchive) files like in Konqueror might be worth considering depending on what result the users really wants to achieve.
Currently, the only workaround is to print to a Postscript file and run the result through pstopdf. I don't know if this is possible to do from within Epiphany.
Same as bug 399874, as pointed out by Richard Hughes
Save-to-PDF is not the exactly same as print-to-PDF. Save-to-PDF would save the page as it is shown in the browser with the 'screen' stylesheets, while print-to-PDF applies the 'print' stylesheets. Some pages abuse the print stylesheets to hide the content from printing. I think we need both a checkbox in the print dialogue whether to use the print stylesheets, and a simple save-to-PDF option in the save-as dialogue that just happens to use print-to-PDF.
Print to PDF has been there for a long time now, and should be good enough for most if not all usecases. Let's put this bug report to rest.