Firefox - Print Websites as PDF

System: BeOS, Haiku, Zeta

The first port of the Mozilla browser for BeOS was a giant step forward for the users of the system. There it did not disturb anybody that the browser cannot print. At times of Zeta, the developers of this system, does not fix this problem too. Today at times of Haiku the users hopes still up that this problem get fixed in the future.

But there is a way to print website contents as PDF. There is an "experimental" add-on for firefox named "html2pdf".

To use this add-on we need to install it first. Visit the Mozilla add-on website at: https://addons.mozilla.org.

Here we use the search option to find the add-on. Enter the name of the add-on: "html2pdf".



At the moment we make this tutorial, the add-on is experimental. To install this add-on you need to accept this condition and that you can get problems using it .



Mark the option "Let me install this experimental add-on" and press the button "Add to Firefox".



After this you will see the license of the add-on. You need to accept this too.



After you have read an accept the license, the install window opens. Click on "Install Now" to install the add-on.

The safety attitude of the Firefox forbids a referring of Add-Ons without of them, by the user accomplished release.




After the add-on is installed the browser needs to restart. Click on "Restart Bon Echo" to restart the browser. The browser change back to the last opend websites.



If the installation folded, a pdf sign is in the lower, right corner of the browser.



The browser changes on an output side, on which the web page is indicated as preview picture. Click here on the link "Download PDF" to print the website.

If you want to print only parts of a website and not the complete one, you can click on the pdf sign and add the address of the website contents into the textcontrol "Address". Straight by web pages they use Frames, are this a good possibility only to print the text without the entire structure therefore around it.




The user will be asked there to save the PDF document. Select here "Save to Disk".



If you use Zeta, you will be asked how to open the document. Select here "Open Normally" to save the file.




Finally you will be asked there you want to save the document on your system. Select "Save" to store the document.


Translation by Christian Albrecht (Lelldorin) May 2009
Tutorial by Christian Albrecht (Lelldorin) May 2009
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