[Novalug] Printing from webpage

Bonnie Dalzell bdalzell@qis.net
Wed Feb 5 17:17:26 EST 2014


On Wed, 5 Feb 2014, Jon LaBadie wrote:

> On Tue, Feb 04, 2014 at 07:55:05PM -0500, Tom Gutnick wrote:
>> I don't know about Firefox, but with Chrome I use an extension called Print
>> Friendly & PDF, which does this -- basically it formats the page in a
>> preview (and does a very nice job cleaning up some web sites that have very
>> ugly, overlapped printing), and allows you to delete individual blocks which
>> you don't want to appear. I've found it useful, and have had no problems
>> with it.
>>
> I was envious.  I installed PF&P on Chrome and it seems like what I
> am looking for.  But no PF&P add-on available for FireFox.

I just found it with the firefox add-ons meun under Tools. I am using 26.0 
- Mozilla Firefox for Ubuntu Canonical 1.0.

>
> But wait, on the PF&P website there is a "bookmarklet" available.
> Drag the icon to the FireFox bookmark bar and the icon becomes a
> hotspot to invoke the app.
>
> Early testing says it works pretty well.  Thanks Tom!
>
> Jon
>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> Date: Tue, 04 Feb 2014 15:27:01 -0500
>>> From: Jon LaBadie <novalugml@jgcomp.com>
>>> Subject: [Novalug] Printing from webpage
>>> To: novalug@calypso.tux.org
>>> Message-ID: <20140204202701.GA31690@cyber.jgcomp.com>
>>> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
>>>
>>> Some websites include a "printer friendly" button that keeps the meat of
>> the
>>> page eliminating a lot of fluff and shortening the total number of printed
>>> pages.
>>>
>>> Is there anyway to mimic the printer friendly effect for sites that do not
>>> provide one?
>>>
>>> Looking at FireFox add-ons, there are a few that allow printing selected
>> text
>>> and one that allows "editing" and reformatting from the print preview
>>> window.  Any experience with these?
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Jon
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