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  • What was that version of FF with web page saving as pdf ?

    From B Barnett@21:1/5 to All on Wed Mar 3 02:32:39 2021
    It appears that Windows 10 Pro comes with a free "Microsoft print to PDF" driver. There are also addons for FF that will save to PDF.

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  • From WaltS48@21:1/5 to B Barnett on Wed Mar 3 08:26:13 2021
    On 3/3/21 5:32 AM, B Barnett wrote:
    It appears that Windows 10 Pro comes with a free "Microsoft print to PDF" driver. There are also addons for FF that will save to PDF.

    Firefox has been opening PDF's in a tab for a long time now. The tab has
    a download button.

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  • From PietB@21:1/5 to Jeremy Nicoll on Wed Mar 3 15:05:10 2021
    Jeremy Nicoll wrote:
    WaltS48 wrote:
    B Barnett wrote:
    It appears that Windows 10 Pro comes with a free "Microsoft print to PDF" >>> driver. There are also addons for FF that will save to PDF.

    Firefox has been opening PDF's in a tab for a long time now. The tab has
    a download button.

    Doesn't the OP mean "printing" a page, where you select a virtual PDF
    printer as the Destination?

    That's an option that has existed for a long, long time.
    But an add-on is an option too: https://addons.mozilla.org/nl/firefox/addon/save-as-pdf/
    Personally I prefer the virtual printer, because it works
    not only for FF, but for anything you want to "print" as
    pdf in Win.

    -p

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  • From Jeremy Nicoll@21:1/5 to ML - mozilla-ff-firefox-support on Wed Mar 3 13:29:24 2021
    On Wed, 3 Mar 2021, at 13:26, WaltS48 wrote:
    On 3/3/21 5:32 AM, B Barnett wrote:
    It appears that Windows 10 Pro comes with a free "Microsoft print to PDF" driver. There are also addons for FF that will save to PDF.

    Firefox has been opening PDF's in a tab for a long time now. The tab has
    a download button.

    Doesn't the OP mean "printing" a page, where you select a virtual PDF printer as the Destination?

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  • From WaltS48@21:1/5 to Jeremy Nicoll on Wed Mar 3 09:05:29 2021
    On 3/3/21 8:29 AM, Jeremy Nicoll wrote:
    There are also addons for FF that will save to PDF.

    He said ^.

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  • From WaltS48@21:1/5 to Jeremy Nicoll on Wed Mar 3 09:08:43 2021
    On 3/3/21 8:29 AM, Jeremy Nicoll wrote:
    On Wed, 3 Mar 2021, at 13:26, WaltS48 wrote:
    On 3/3/21 5:32 AM, B Barnett wrote:
    It appears that Windows 10 Pro comes with a free "Microsoft print to PDF" driver. There are also addons for FF that will save to PDF.
    Firefox has been opening PDF's in a tab for a long time now. The tab has
    a download button.
    Doesn't the OP mean "printing" a page, where you select a virtual PDF printer as the Destination?

    There is also a "Print" button in the tab, which gives the user the
    option to "Save to PDF".

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  • From Jeremy Nicoll@21:1/5 to ML - mozilla-ff-firefox-support on Wed Mar 3 14:16:45 2021
    On Wed, 3 Mar 2021, at 14:05, PietB wrote:
    Jeremy Nicoll wrote:
    WaltS48 wrote:
    B Barnett wrote:
    It appears that Windows 10 Pro comes with a free "Microsoft print to PDF" >>> driver. There are also addons for FF that will save to PDF.

    Firefox has been opening PDF's in a tab for a long time now. The tab has >> a download button.

    Doesn't the OP mean "printing" a page, where you select a virtual PDF printer as the Destination?

    That's an option that has existed for a long, long time.

    At an OS level, yes. But this is a FF feature.

    But an add-on is an option too:

    You don't need an addon. It's part of FF, since v86. See:

    https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/86.0/releasenotes

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  • From Wolf K@21:1/5 to Jeremy Nicoll on Wed Mar 3 08:49:24 2021
    On 2021-03-03 08:29, Jeremy Nicoll wrote:
    On Wed, 3 Mar 2021, at 13:26, WaltS48 wrote:
    On 3/3/21 5:32 AM, B Barnett wrote:
    It appears that Windows 10 Pro comes with a free "Microsoft print to PDF" driver. There are also addons for FF that will save to PDF.

    Firefox has been opening PDF's in a tab for a long time now. The tab has
    a download button.

    Doesn't the OP mean "printing" a page, where you select a virtual PDF printer as the Destination?

    Yes, I believe so.

    Here, selecting Print for any FF page offers all available printers,
    including "...to PDF". (I just tested it). Of course, how much of the
    page actually prints is controlled server-side.

    If OP doesn't see Print to PDF, I wonder whether they have Print to PDF available at all.

    Best,

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  • From Andy Burns@21:1/5 to Wolf K on Thu Mar 4 09:11:49 2021
    Wolf K wrote:

    Here, selecting Print for any FF page offers all available printers, including "...to PDF". (I just tested it). Of course, how much of the
    page actually prints is controlled server-side.

    If OP doesn't see Print to PDF, I wonder whether they have Print to PDF available at all.

    In addition to "Print to PDF" which (if it exists at all) is provided by
    the operating system, the latest firefox offers "Save to PDF" even if
    the operating system has no printers.

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  • From Frank@21:1/5 to Andy Burns on Thu Mar 4 09:00:08 2021
    On 12/20/2020 4:05 PM, Andy Burns wrote:
    [email protected] wrote:

    Can someone tell me what was that version of FF

    Either I install "that" old version (if possible) or switch to an
    other browser.

    Think you must have been imagining it, never known a firefox with "save
    as PDF" functionality, you could print to a PDF driver, or maybe you
    were using something chromium based?

    Glad question was asked and wondered and now I see on my 86.0 on file -
    print I can save as PDF.

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