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Bug 164385 - Support saving to PDF
Support saving to PDF
Status: RESOLVED OBSOLETE
Product: epiphany
Classification: Core
Component: [obsolete] Backend:Mozilla
git master
Other All
: Normal enhancement
: Future
Assigned To: Epiphany Maintainers
Epiphany Maintainers
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2005-01-17 20:55 UTC by spark
Modified: 2012-09-16 01:43 UTC
See Also:
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Description spark 2005-01-17 20:55:19 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?
Comment 1 Christian Persch 2005-01-18 19:20:54 UTC
This should be possible once printing uses cairo.
Comment 2 Reinout van Schouwen 2005-01-24 23:15:54 UTC
Once we have this, it should be trivial to add thumbnails support for
history/bookmarks. Evince already can do that already.
Comment 3 Alan Horkan 2006-07-27 01:45:03 UTC
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.  



Comment 4 Reinout van Schouwen 2006-12-25 23:53:47 UTC
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.
Comment 5 Bastien Nocera 2007-03-06 12:24:35 UTC
Same as bug 399874, as pointed out by Richard Hughes
Comment 6 Christian Persch 2007-05-01 20:47:10 UTC
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.
Comment 7 Jean-François Fortin Tam 2012-09-16 01:43:01 UTC
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.