5000$ solution explained in detail for free - How to print a web page and how to save a web page as a pdf
Ike Feng- Senior Software Developer
Principal Staff Software Engineer/Senior Software Developer
How to print a web page and how to save a web page as a pdf
In our everyday life when we browse the internet, often comes the time when we want to preserve or print a web page so that we can keep a record of it or show it to someone else in a physical paper format.
Here I will introduce some ways to accomplish these goals.
1. To print a page, we can use the function that comes with the browser. For example, if you are using Chrome, once you are on any web page, just press ctrl + p, you will be able to invoke the print screen and start printing from there. Other browsers work similarly.
2. To save the information on that page, the reason of you wanting to save that page may be there is pricing information of an item you would like to buy and you would like to save it for reference. If you are using Chrome, there are tools that you can use to save that web page into a pdf file.
As you can see from the picture below, I save the apple iphone 6s page as a pdf file.
Believe it or not, this function that comes with Chrome saved one of my clients from investing tens of thousands of dollars into developing a software to accomplish the goal.
3. There are more expensive other ways to support such as developing a custom way to support fancier printing.