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  • Is there any way Windows Firefox can print this web page to PDF?

    From Mickey D@21:1/5 to All on Sat Nov 9 14:33:32 2024
    XPost: alt.comp.software.firefox, comp.text.pdf

    https://artsandculture.google.com/story/the-last-voyage-of-sir-john-franklin-derbyshire-record-office/jAVxEd0YGOfbJQ?hl=en

    All I wanted to do was print the web page to PDF.
    But nothing results except an empty page with a header & footer.

    What am I doing wrong?

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  • From micky@21:1/5 to mickeydavis078XX@ptd.net on Sat Nov 9 17:27:21 2024
    XPost: alt.comp.software.firefox, comp.text.pdf

    In alt.comp.os.windows-10, on Sat, 9 Nov 2024 14:33:32 -0500, Mickey D <mickeydavis078XX@ptd.net> wrote:

    https://artsandculture.google.com/story/the-last-voyage-of-sir-john-franklin-derbyshire-record-office/jAVxEd0YGOfbJQ?hl=en

    All I wanted to do was print the web page to PDF.
    But nothing results except an empty page with a header & footer.

    What am I doing wrong?

    What are you doing right? That is, how are you attempting to do this?

    Ctrl-P ?
    Save Page as, and having the file name end in pdf ?
    Print Screen ?

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  • From Paul@21:1/5 to Mickey D on Sat Nov 9 17:36:25 2024
    XPost: alt.comp.software.firefox, comp.text.pdf

    On Sat, 11/9/2024 2:33 PM, Mickey D wrote:
    https://artsandculture.google.com/story/the-last-voyage-of-sir-john-franklin-derbyshire-record-office/jAVxEd0YGOfbJQ?hl=en

    All I wanted to do was print the web page to PDF.
    But nothing results except an empty page with a header & footer.

    What am I doing wrong?


    The page is not designed to be printed.

    "Save As, Web Page Complete" will not work. If you watch,
    the transfer during that, even has some trouble with the
    static files, let alone anything else.

    Some of the pages are delivered by AJAX or Fetch. They put
    up a background image first, as part of "Discovery" and
    "Making the user wait until the foreground image appears".
    Then the foreground image is acquired via AJAX.

    The PDF printer is intolerant of these behaviors and
    every time you print, the page will be missing different
    things. The PDF print will be a shambles, and not even
    remotely the correct length.

    You can't cheat by using a large-sized virtual screen.
    Won't help.

    If you open in Seamonkey Composer, using the URL, all the
    pictures are missing.

    Don't waste your time, in other words.

    Paul

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  • From John K.Eason@21:1/5 to Mickey D on Sun Nov 10 00:16:00 2024
    In article <vgodeb$8mr$1@nnrp.usenet.blueworldhosting.com>, mickeydavis078XX@ptd.net (Mickey D) wrote:

    *From:* Mickey D <mickeydavis078XX@ptd.net>
    *Date:* Sat, 9 Nov 2024 14:33:32 -0500

    https://artsandculture.google.com/story/the-last-voyage-of-sir-john- franklin-derbyshire-record-office/jAVxEd0YGOfbJQ?hl=en

    All I wanted to do was print the web page to PDF.
    But nothing results except an empty page with a header & footer.

    What am I doing wrong?

    If you just want the text you can select 'Simplified' rather than 'Original' Format
    near the bottom of Firefox's print dialog, but as others have said you can't print
    the whole page with images because of the layout.

    --
    Regards
    John

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  • From Newyana2@21:1/5 to Mickey D on Sat Nov 9 20:24:50 2024
    XPost: alt.comp.software.firefox, comp.text.pdf

    On 11/9/2024 2:33 PM, Mickey D wrote:
    https://artsandculture.google.com/story/the-last-voyage-of-sir-john-franklin-derbyshire-record-office/jAVxEd0YGOfbJQ?hl=en

    All I wanted to do was print the web page to PDF.
    But nothing results except an empty page with a header & footer.

    What am I doing wrong?


    I don't know if this will satifsy, but it looks pretty good to
    me if I disable CSS, select all, copy, paste into Libre Office
    Writer. From there it can be converted to PDF.

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  • From Ant@21:1/5 to John K.Eason on Sun Nov 10 01:58:17 2024
    John K.Eason <john@jeasonnospam.cix.co.uk> wrote:
    In article <vgodeb$8mr$1@nnrp.usenet.blueworldhosting.com>, mickeydavis078XX@ptd.net (Mickey D) wrote:

    *From:* Mickey D <mickeydavis078XX@ptd.net>
    *Date:* Sat, 9 Nov 2024 14:33:32 -0500

    https://artsandculture.google.com/story/the-last-voyage-of-sir-john-franklin-derbyshire-record-office/jAVxEd0YGOfbJQ?hl=en

    All I wanted to do was print the web page to PDF.
    But nothing results except an empty page with a header & footer.

    What am I doing wrong?

    If you just want the text you can select 'Simplified' rather than 'Original' Format
    near the bottom of Firefox's print dialog, but as others have said you can't print
    the whole page with images because of the layout.

    Neat, but how come not all web sites show this print "Simplified" option
    like on https://news.google.com/home?hl=en-US&gl=US&ceid=US:en web page?

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  • From Lawrence D'Oliveiro@21:1/5 to Mickey D on Sun Nov 10 01:30:29 2024
    XPost: alt.comp.software.firefox, comp.text.pdf

    On Sat, 9 Nov 2024 14:33:32 -0500, Mickey D wrote:

    https://artsandculture.google.com/story/the-last-voyage-of-sir-john-franklin-derbyshire-record-office/jAVxEd0YGOfbJQ?hl=en

    If you do “Tools → Page Info” (or CTRL/I), under the “Media” tab, you can select all the relevant image files and download them.

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  • From Paul@21:1/5 to Lawrence D'Oliveiro on Sat Nov 9 22:30:36 2024
    XPost: alt.comp.software.firefox, comp.text.pdf

    On Sat, 11/9/2024 8:30 PM, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
    On Sat, 9 Nov 2024 14:33:32 -0500, Mickey D wrote:

    https://artsandculture.google.com/story/the-last-voyage-of-sir-john-franklin-derbyshire-record-office/jAVxEd0YGOfbJQ?hl=en

    If you do “Tools → Page Info” (or CTRL/I), under the “Media” tab, you
    can select all the relevant image files and download them.


    The items blob:https: that are grayed out, how would you get those ?

    They must be grayed out for a reason (such as "not cached").

    If you want to hunt through "cache2", maybe they are anonymized
    and stored in there. But the presentation gives the impression
    "not cached" means also, not stored in cache2 either, as otherwise
    there would be no delays during any subsequent viewings of the page.

    "Blob: https is not a protocol, but a string of tags generated by the
    blob object in HTML5. The browser will parse the data contained in the blob object internally.

    Each blob video has both a blob URL and a regular URL. For example:

    Blob URL: blob:https://www.youtube.com/e2f70957-e151-40c3-8582-65ac22bc3bbb
    Normal URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BfXWsabC-54

    Blob URL: blob:https://twitter.com/b68eadeb-21be-4e78-8516-03ed37c066d1
    Normal URL: https://twitter.com/i/status/1778231962244907292

    Blob URL: blob:https://geo.dailymotion.com/a3472b30-57ff-4c7e-bd5c-0a520c5bbb5f
    Normal URL: https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x7b56dr
    "

    There is some convoluted way, described here.

    https://stackoverflow.com/questions/36534368/blob-url-to-image

    I looked at what may be the file in cache2, but it is not a valid JPG
    and there is evidence of some crypto thing at the end of the JPG file.

    Paul

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  • From Jack@21:1/5 to Mickey D on Sun Nov 10 03:45:08 2024
    XPost: comp.text.pdf, alt.comp.software.firefox

    On 09/11/2024 19:33, Mickey D wrote:
    https://artsandculture.google.com/story/the-last-voyage-of-sir-john-franklin-derbyshire-record-office/jAVxEd0YGOfbJQ?hl=en

    All I wanted to do was print the web page to PDF.
    But nothing results except an empty page with a header & footer.

    What am I doing wrong?


    Press function key F9 and then you can print it. You won't get images
    but it is in reader's view so you get only text.

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  • From Lawrence D'Oliveiro@21:1/5 to Mickey D on Sun Nov 10 05:51:04 2024
    XPost: alt.comp.software.firefox, comp.text.pdf

    On Sat, 9 Nov 2024 14:33:32 -0500, Mickey D wrote:

    https://artsandculture.google.com/story/the-last-voyage-of-sir-john-franklin-derbyshire-record-office/jAVxEd0YGOfbJQ?hl=en

    I just tried “Enter Reader View” (CTRL-ALT-R). When I try to print the result, I get 15 pages of text, but without the background images.

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  • From Andy Burns@21:1/5 to Mickey D on Sun Nov 10 09:09:50 2024
    XPost: alt.comp.software.firefox, comp.text.pdf

    Mickey D wrote:

    https://artsandculture.google.com/story/the-last-voyage-of-sir-john- franklin-derbyshire-record-office/jAVxEd0YGOfbJQ?hl=en

    All I wanted to do was print the web page to PDF.

    It's not so much a web page, more of an interactive slideshow generated
    by mess of obfuscated javascript.

    But nothing results except an empty page with a header & footer.
    What am I doing wrong?

    The best I could get was to do "View/Page Style/No Style" in firefox
    the ctrl-a, ctrl-c to copy everything, go into LibreOffice Writer [other
    word processors are available] and ctrl-v to paste it, then save as pdf.

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  • From John K.Eason@21:1/5 to All on Sun Nov 10 19:03:00 2024
    In article <LP2cnWyXy42kjq36nZ2dnZfqnPQAAAAA@earthlink.com>, ant@zimage.comANT (Ant)
    wrote:

    If you just want the text you can select 'Simplified' rather than
    'Original' Format
    near the bottom of Firefox's print dialog, but as others have
    said you can't print
    the whole page with images because of the layout.

    Neat, but how come not all web sites show this print "Simplified"
    option like on
    https://news.google.com/home?hl=en-US&gl=US&ceid=US:en web page?

    I guess it's not possible to 'simplify' that one any further for some reason.

    --
    Regards
    John

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  • From Bill Bradshaw@21:1/5 to Mickey D on Sun Nov 10 09:23:53 2024
    XPost: alt.comp.software.firefox, comp.text.pdf

    Mickey D wrote:
    https://artsandculture.google.com/story/the-last-voyage-of-sir-john-franklin-derbyshire-record-office/jAVxEd0YGOfbJQ?hl=en

    All I wanted to do was print the web page to PDF.
    But nothing results except an empty page with a header & footer.

    What am I doing wrong?

    I use Cutepdf as a pdf printer and print with that and I get all the images. There are other pdf printer programs.
    --
    <Bill>

    Brought to you from Anchorage, Alaska

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  • From Ant@21:1/5 to derfdswe@hjuhyhgtfr.com on Mon Nov 11 02:14:38 2024
    XPost: comp.text.pdf, alt.comp.software.firefox

    In alt.comp.os.windows-10 Jack <derfdswe@hjuhyhgtfr.com> wrote:
    On 09/11/2024 19:33, Mickey D wrote:
    https://artsandculture.google.com/story/the-last-voyage-of-sir-john-franklin-derbyshire-record-office/jAVxEd0YGOfbJQ?hl=en

    All I wanted to do was print the web page to PDF.
    But nothing results except an empty page with a header & footer.

    What am I doing wrong?

    Press function key F9 and then you can print it. You won't get images
    but it is in reader's view so you get only text.

    Ah, the reader view as shown in the end of URL with its document(?)
    icon. Not all web site will have it though!

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  • From Zo@21:1/5 to All on Mon Nov 11 08:42:51 2024
    XPost: alt.comp.software.firefox, comp.text.pdf

    Mickey D explained on 11/9/2024 :
    https://artsandculture.google.com/story/the-last-voyage-of-sir-john-franklin-derbyshire-record-office/jAVxEd0YGOfbJQ?hl=en

    All I wanted to do was print the web page to PDF.
    But nothing results except an empty page with a header & footer.

    What am I doing wrong?

    If you use the Firefox extension FireShot and select the "Save Page As"
    option, it can be done without any problmes....

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    Zo

    Click..Click..Click..darn, out of taglines!

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