On 07/22/2014 02:20 PM, John M Andersen wrote:
On Tuesday, July 22, 2014 06:04:03 PM Istvan Gabor wrote:
Hello:
I would like to save and/or print google forum topic pages for future reference and offline use. For example this page:
https://productforums.google.com/forum/?hl=en#!topic/gmail/Ajayw8WrwRQ
If I save it in my browser using save page as in firefox or save as in opera, the resulted saved html file does not contain the page's content. I can not view the content offline.
If I try to print the page to pdf file in firefox, only one page gets into the file and the comments from the lower part of the page are cut off.
How could I save and or print the page so that I could view the content offline?
Thanks,
Istvan You are stuck in a catch 22, and perhaps its by Google's design.
Even if you click the little down arrow within a circle just beyond the words "4 authors", and select "Expand all" it will not print anything that does not fit within the browser window.
The Print task reloads the page into the browser window, but But I don't think it runs the javascript, and perhaps that is part of the problem.
In any event, I've tried with all the linux browsers that I have installed and they all operate this way. So do the windows browsers I've tried. So I suspect that google went out of their way to cause this to prevent someone printing a zillion page thread.
For reasonably small threads like the one you linked to you can outsmart this with the following work around:
1) Make sure you have selected Expand All as explained above 2) Grab the title bar of the Browser window, 3) Drag the window DOWN the screen such that it is mostly off screen. 4) Grab the top edge of the title bar, and start dragging upward (expanding the browser window). Keep an eye on the scroll bar. 5) When the scroll bar thumb (slider) disappears from the scroll bar, you have expanded the depth of the window sufficiently to contain the full thread, even though you can't see it because most of it is off the bottom of your screen. 6) NOW select print, and it will print the entire thread.
This was done in KDE, so YMMV with other DEs which may handle window expansion slightly differently.
It adds a couple steps but in Firefox I highlighted the thread and copy/pasted it into Kate. From there you can do whatever. -- Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must. like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it.-Thomas Paine _ _... ..._ _ _._ ._ ..... ._.. ... .._ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org