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Save web pages as PDF in Firefox for Android

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Re: Save web pages as PDF in Firefox for Android

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Post by Tmpod »

padenot wrote: post #37
AdmiralAsshat wrote: post #22

Cool feature, although I note with some irony that once I have the PDF downloaded, I still have to then use Google's Drive PDF reader or some other tool to open it. Maybe work on a full stack PDF renderer like the desktop version has, Mozilla?

This is in the works. It's the same codebase as the desktop version, which is written in js. I've tested it on low end Android phones from 2017, it works well, when compared to the native offering, and also on modern high end phones, it also works well of course. What's missing is mobile specific UX, such as pinch-to-zoom, and UX/UI refinements, so it's nice to use. It has form support, annotations and other goodies…

This sounds pretty cool! I tried enabling it in Fennec (F-Droid "debloated" version with about:config available) and couldn't get it to work. It still downloads PDFs and prompts the system app picker for the viewer.

Did you have to enable anything else?

Re: Save web pages as PDF in Firefox for Android

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Post by matheusmoreira »

0cf8612b2e1e wrote: post #92
tmpburning wrote: post #86

Next thing you'll know is that they will bring back RSS ....

Don’t go crazy now. Why should Firefox cater to the power user with a feature that likely requires zero maintenance. Any day now, I expect them to drop the pretty JSON rendering as well.

I wish there was a browser made exclusively for power users. Something like the Emacs of browsers. I'm tempted to try to make my own like Andreas Kling did.

Re: Save web pages as PDF in Firefox for Android

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Post by SergeAx »

AdmiralAsshat wrote: post #22

Cool feature, although I note with some irony that once I have the PDF downloaded, I still have to then use Google's Drive PDF reader or some other tool to open it. Maybe work on a full stack PDF renderer like the desktop version has, Mozilla?

Isn't Firefox open source? I mean, maybe fork a repo and code that? Or encourage/sponsor those who will?

Re: Save web pages as PDF in Firefox for Android

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Post by zagrebian »

bioemerl wrote: post #69
zagrebian wrote: post #68

I wish there was a good web-based alternative to PDF.

I wish there was a markup language that gave you the full power relatively of PDF, with page sizes and all of that. And a fairly universal converter to turn that markup language into a document. Then we could use our pre-existing template systems that we use for all the HTML for PDFs and get rid of all these crazy systems that enterprises used to build all the PDF reports

Why not HTML + CSS?

Re: Save web pages as PDF in Firefox for Android

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Post by rsync »

mynameisvlad wrote: post #91
rsync wrote: post #58

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You're right - I am not sure what I was (mis)remembering ... However, I note that "export to pdf" is grayed out for a file that is already a PDF ... which I don't remember being the case ...

Why would you want to export a PDF as a PDF? What could that possibly achieve? Just… use the existing file.

I export a pdf as a pdf all the time ...

You receive a non-editable pdf ... you use the textbox and signature tools in Preview.app to mark it up and sign it ... and then you export it as a pdf to send back.

How else would I complete that workflow ? Genuinely interested ...

Re: Save web pages as PDF in Firefox for Android

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Post by bioemerl »

zagrebian wrote: post #106
bioemerl wrote: post #69

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I wish there was a markup language that gave you the full power relatively of PDF, with page sizes and all of that. And a fairly universal converter to turn that markup language into a document. Then we could use our pre-existing template systems that we use for all the HTML for PDFs and get rid of all these crazy systems that enterprises used to build all the PDF reports

Why not HTML + CSS?

HTML and CSS are built for web pages, which means they don't really have a strong concept of page size. If I want to build a table with headers that repeat on every page of a printed document, it's an absolute pain to do it with HTML and CSS.

You need something with constructs that can express pages, repeated tables, headers and footers, stuff like that in a much more native format.

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