Android doesn’t have “print to PDF”?
It does and some apps can share to it. Unfortunately Firefox does not. I just checked.
Save web pages as PDF in Firefox for Android
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Re: Save web pages as PDF in Firefox for Android
#112Earlier quoted context omitted.
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 ...
You… literally press save.
Preview lets you save any annotations to PDFs and images it supports. It’s literally as easy as pressing Cmd-s. If you really want to save it as a different file, use Preview’s duplicate feature to save it as a new file.
If you want to make the file you’re editing non-editable/flattened, then you can use macOS’s built in print dialog which lets you natively save to PDF. This isn’t a Preview feature per-we, but it is system wide.
This seems to have not been possible before and changed in Big Sur: https://discussions.apple.com/thread/252703055
And Apple’s guide considers Save and Export to PDF to be the same function: https://support.apple.com/guide/preview/annotate-a-pdf-prvw1...
Re: Save web pages as PDF in Firefox for Android
#113I am using Firefox in Android, these are some of the issues i am facing: - Scrolling is slow on multiple sites like raycast.com - The UI doesn't feel home for me, at least it has dark mode on Android 9 (my phone doesnt get updates) - Tapping new tab doesn't actually create a new tab, instead asks for a URL - Searching for World cup matches in google only shows the goal score, I guess it's a google search issue, but i…
> Searching for World cup matches in google only shows the goal score, I guess it's a google search issue, but in chrome I get detailed scorecards Go to settings -> add ons and install "Google search fixer"
Thanks, that fixed it.
Re: Save web pages as PDF in Firefox for Android
#114Earlier quoted context omitted.
What do you mean "have to"? Why not use one of the plenty ope source PDF viewers for Android?
Currently, most of the PDF viewers from f-droid report they have a security vulnerability and the f-droid app recommends uninstalling them. For example: https://f-droid.org/en/packages/com.foobnix.pro.pdf.reader/ No explanation on what the vulnerability is.
According to the forum discussion [1] you can find the explanations (when they're not included in the app description) in the MaintainerNotes part of the metadata file, which is linked from the page that lists all vulnerable apps [2] and as "Build Metadata" on the page you linked. Not very obvious, but at least the info is available somewhere.
[1] https://forum.f-droid.org/t/vulnerability-warnings-in-f-droi...
Re: Save web pages as PDF in Firefox for Android
#115Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
Sorry if I wasn’t clear. I didn’t mean “Make it work with HTML and CSS today”. I meant, Why couldn’t HTML and CSS be used as a basis for a PDF-like format? New features are constantly being added to HTML and CSS. In 5 to 10 years, maybe we’ll have a revamped powerful paged layout that will have all the features that you mentioned.
So my point is, why create a new format when you can enhance HTML and CSS?
Re: Save web pages as PDF in Firefox for Android
#116Earlier quoted context omitted.
Not available on mobile
You can use it through custom collection which are available on Firefox for Android Nightly and Fennec
It's also been added to Firefox Beta since version 107 (October).
https://www.ghacks.net/2022/10/20/firefox-beta-for-android-n...
Re: Save web pages as PDF in Firefox for Android
#117Amazing! Just noticed it two days back in mull browser's share context overlay.