How do I print an entire page in Firefox?

For my personal records (e.g. receipts), I like to print a web page in Firefox using CUPS print-to-pdf. This works great when the page layout is narrow. However, if the page is too wide, the output is cut-off on the right. I have tried all the possible options for shrink to fit, scale: 100%, and page size/orientation, but depending on the page's HTML/CSS, the right is still cut-off.

Ideally, I would like to use a tool which can capture the entire page as-is (at the window's width; not formatted for paper), and output it in *.pdf format. Does something like this exist?

Preferred OS: Linux, but I can also use Windows 7.

iglvzx

Posted 2011-11-04T19:06:55.230

Reputation: 21 611

Have you tried add-ons such as iWeb2x or Print edit? – Tog – 2011-11-04T22:17:40.400

I just tried iWeb2X and PrintEdit, as you suggested. iWeb2X seems to have issues with CSS and displays certain elements incorrectly. PrintEdit is a great tool. It looks like it will save me some time, as I sometimes manually delete elements using FireBug.

There are a lot of great tools out there for printing to PDF, but none with an option to output the page as-is, without paper dimensions/margins. – iglvzx – 2011-11-04T23:37:33.133

You may try to use the following extensions: Firebug on Aardvark to play with HTML/CSS before printing; Screengrab to print as PNG image. Aardvark works fine with FF7 if you set option to ignore compatibility check; Screengrab is End-Of-Life, don't know if works with new FF, works fine with FF3.6. – jakub.g – 2011-11-07T00:19:37.190

Answers

Abduction! seems to work well,
if you dont mind .png.

Steven Penny

Posted 2011-11-04T19:06:55.230

Reputation: 7 294

This seems to be the simplest solution right now to capture the whole window accurately. It's too bad that no tools exist to output *.pdf in the same manner. – iglvzx – 2011-11-07T18:30:32.097

Try wkhtmltopdf. It's packaged at least in Debian/Ubuntu.

Guide

To use this software download the latest static release unpack it and run it like
wkhtmltopdf www.myhomepage.com myhomepage.pdf
for a list of available options see
wkhtmltopdf --help
Features

Convert web pages into PDF documents using webkit

Adding headers and footers (static version only)

TOC generation (static version only)

Batch mode conversions

(Linux) No longer requires an XServer to be running (however the X11 client libs must be installed)

sml

Posted 2011-11-04T19:06:55.230

Reputation: 1 582

You could maybe try the Chrome browser with “Print to PDF”.

See Using print preview.

harrymc

Posted 2011-11-04T19:06:55.230

Reputation: 306 093

Save as PDF might work. That's a firefox addon that can save any page to a PDF file.

Ma͢dalin

Posted 2011-11-04T19:06:55.230

Reputation: 17

Care to elaborate on what "This" is, because just posting a link isn't very helpful. – Ivo Flipse – 2011-11-12T17:56:18.020

This does not save the current iteration of the page. It appears to send the URL to pdfcrowd.com where it is then processed using their servers. It also watermarks the output. Not really what I was looking for. – iglvzx – 2011-11-14T00:13:27.333