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I am trying to print a very long webpage with pictures and text.
I also tried printing as a PDF. Nothing works. Either I get only one page or I get several messed up pages but never all would be pages. I tried to save as .html and then print and that was all messed up also. Is there some app that can do this? |
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On 22/07/2017 03:40, freen wrote:
I am trying to print a very long webpage with pictures and text. I also tried printing as a PDF. Nothing works. Either I get only one page or I get several messed up pages but never all would be pages. I tried to save as .html and then print and that was all messed up also. Is there some app that can do this? Put your link on this page and then see if it can create a pdf file for you that is readable: https://www.printfriendly.com/ If this doesn't work then please post a link here for us to9 try it. -- With over 500 million devices now running Windows 10, customer satisfaction is higher than any previous version of windows. |
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freen wrote:
I am trying to print a very long webpage with pictures and text. I also tried printing as a PDF. Nothing works. Either I get only one page or I get several messed up pages but never all would be pages. I tried to save as .html and then print and that was all messed up also. Is there some app that can do this? Just declare a printer pagesize which is big enough to hold the entire page. PDF probably goes to 32676 (signed 16-bit coordinate space). At 300 DPI, that's about a 108" page or so. This is a portion of the Yahoo News page, printed on 24"x108" paper, just to illustrate how much content you could get. The web page was actually over 300" long, so even my print driver isn't good enough for that. The output is actually three pages, with the usual lack of a guarantee that page 2 and page 3 are complete. This is 1/10th actual scale (and, while printed at 100DPI so I wouldn't run out of RAM). https://s18.postimg.org/kyjya0gex/sample3.gif If you had a "print to TIF" driver, perhaps the coordinate space on that would exceed signed 16-bit numbers. Then the problem is, is GDIplus up to the job, of whatever passes for the successor to the 16-bit GDI (a part of Windows). And if you comment is "well, that page isn't very clear", I had to limit the content to fit within the postimg.org limits. If I opened the output .ps file with GIMP and I had a big enough GIMP-swap file, I could open it at 300DPI. My other machine is big enough to do crazy **** like that. I've worked on .psb files on that machine, which is something Irfanview can allow you to view. PSB is the Photoshop option which allows really big images to be processed. To beat these web monkeys at their game, you need as large a virtual surface for rendering, as possible. The print driver on this machine is HP DesignJet 750C which uses a PostScript output driver for 36" roll-fed paper. We used to have one at work. You would never do huge artwork on it, because of material cost. And that driver has the 108" limit vertically. There are also "Universal Print Drivers" that you can abuse for the same purpose, with large page capability. That's a bit trickier to trace down, then do a "Print to File" install. The labeling method, doesn't really allow me after the fact, to figure out where I got mine. Microsoft writes those, then the various printer manufacturers customize them. It's intended to reduce the work required to continue supporting older printers. Now, this one, only goes to 17"x36", which isn't really enough. The "Custom" dialog shows the max dimensions. https://s1.postimg.org/ujwhc5uxr/universal.gif Back in my Unix days, you had display software which allowed declaring virtual desktops. You couldn't view the virtual desktop on your screen. Maybe you could open a web browser in a 4000x3000 virtual desktop. And by setting the starting X,Y,L,W you could make it fill practically the whole virtual desktop. Then, you'd do the Unix equivalent of PrintScreen. But it's pretty hard working with stuff that you can't see, and "sampling" it to get your output. Regular print drivers, tend to stop at Tabloid (11x17), so your prints vary from Letter (8.5x11) to Tabloid (11"x17"), which isn't a lot of options. But there are a few print drivers that go to at least 108" in the long dimension, which helps a little bit with the printing problem. Paul |
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freen wrote:
I am trying to print a very long webpage with pictures and text. I also tried printing as a PDF. Nothing works. Either I get only one page or I get several messed up pages but never all would be pages. I tried to save as .html and then print and that was all messed up also. Is there some app that can do this? No mention of which web browser you want to use. No suggestion for Internet Explorer but for either Google Chrome or Firefox (or their variants) see if the Nimbus Screenshot & Video Recorder add-on does what you want. |
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writes: I am trying to print a very long webpage with pictures and text. I also tried printing as a PDF. Nothing works. Either I get only one page or I get several messed up pages but never all would be pages. I tried to save as .html and then print and that was all messed up also. Is there some app that can do this? In short: (a) No. Web page "designers" put so much rubbish scripting in these days, that you're effectively running a program when you (try to) view their page, let alone print it. (b) What browser - I've found Firefox more susceptible to screwups with long pages - and what page? In long: See Paul and VanguardLH's answers (-: -- J. P. Gilliver. UMRA: 1960/1985 MB++G()AL-IS-Ch++(p)Ar@T+H+Sh0!:`)DNAf What a strange illusion it is to suppose that beauty is goodness. -Leo Tolstoy, novelist and philosopher (1828-1910) |
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freen wrote:
I am trying to print a very long webpage with pictures and text. I also tried printing as a PDF. Nothing works. Either I get only one page or I get several messed up pages but never all would be pages. I tried to save as .html and then print and that was all messed up also. Is there some app that can do this? I don't know for what purpose you are trying to do that, but you might want to 're-think' your strategy on this matter. You want a copy of the content for some purpose. Maybe that content should be 'reorganized' for your specific purpose. -- Mike Easter |
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freen wrote: I am trying to print a very long webpage with pictures and text. I also tried printing as a PDF. Nothing works. Either I get only one page or I get several messed up pages but never all would be pages. I tried to save as .html and then print and that was all messed up also. Is there some app that can do this? Just declare a printer pagesize which is big enough to hold the entire page. PDF probably goes to 32676 (signed 16-bit coordinate space). At 300 DPI, that's about a 108" page or so. This is a portion of the Yahoo News page, printed on 24"x108" paper, just to illustrate how much content you could get. The web page was actually over 300" long, so even my print driver isn't good enough for that. The output is actually three pages, with the usual lack of a guarantee that page 2 and page 3 are complete. This is 1/10th actual scale (and, while printed at 100DPI so I wouldn't run out of RAM). https://s18.postimg.org/kyjya0gex/sample3.gif If you had a "print to TIF" driver, perhaps the coordinate space on that would exceed signed 16-bit numbers. Then the problem is, is GDIplus up to the job, of whatever passes for the successor to the 16-bit GDI (a part of Windows). And if you comment is "well, that page isn't very clear", I had to limit the content to fit within the postimg.org limits. If I opened the output .ps file with GIMP and I had a big enough GIMP-swap file, I could open it at 300DPI. My other machine is big enough to do crazy **** like that. I've worked on .psb files on that machine, which is something Irfanview can allow you to view. PSB is the Photoshop option which allows really big images to be processed. To beat these web monkeys at their game, you need as large a virtual surface for rendering, as possible. The print driver on this machine is HP DesignJet 750C which uses a PostScript output driver for 36" roll-fed paper. We used to have one at work. You would never do huge artwork on it, because of material cost. And that driver has the 108" limit vertically. There are also "Universal Print Drivers" that you can abuse for the same purpose, with large page capability. That's a bit trickier to trace down, then do a "Print to File" install. The labeling method, doesn't really allow me after the fact, to figure out where I got mine. Microsoft writes those, then the various printer manufacturers customize them. It's intended to reduce the work required to continue supporting older printers. Now, this one, only goes to 17"x36", which isn't really enough. The "Custom" dialog shows the max dimensions. https://s1.postimg.org/ujwhc5uxr/universal.gif Back in my Unix days, you had display software which allowed declaring virtual desktops. You couldn't view the virtual desktop on your screen. Maybe you could open a web browser in a 4000x3000 virtual desktop. And by setting the starting X,Y,L,W you could make it fill practically the whole virtual desktop. Then, you'd do the Unix equivalent of PrintScreen. But it's pretty hard working with stuff that you can't see, and "sampling" it to get your output. Regular print drivers, tend to stop at Tabloid (11x17), so your prints vary from Letter (8.5x11) to Tabloid (11"x17"), which isn't a lot of options. But there are a few print drivers that go to at least 108" in the long dimension, which helps a little bit with the printing problem. Paul This is the best I was able to do in Linux, using screen capture. This is a 1440x15900 pixel image, shrunk by a factor of 14 so I can post it here. This is roughly equivalent to a 160" tall window. This is www.yahoo.com/news in Firefox . https://s17.postimg.org/r2ixgy3lb/linux.gif That's a bit better than the Windows one with the 108" window. That's the best I could do in Windows. https://s18.postimg.org/kyjya0gex/sample3.gif And the Linux setup was none too stable. The XWD screen dumper didn't work right, and it actually required GIMP taking a picture of the Firefox window, to make the image. And the PDF made while in Linux, didn't look too bad. The Linux I used, was Ubuntu Server, with xorg and twm packages added, then Firefox and gimp packages. And a lot of control-alt-F3 (console window) and control-alt-F7 (xorg desktop), to avoid getting frozen out. A couple times, I had to use the reset button. Good times etc. About the biggest PDF page I could make via "Print" in Linux Firefox, was a 48" high page. Paul |
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