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gary4gar
04-04-2008, 01:17 AM
Many Times during My Online activity I am required to take print out of some document such as application forms,receipts, Railways & air tickets etc etc.

But since i do not have a Printer, i would like to save them in exact forum(preferably PDF) so i could print them later on some other computer which has a printer.


Presently i copy & paste but this does not work always, as sometimes custom formatting like tab spaces etc are disturbed.


So Please Help.
Using Firefox + Ubuntu

mehulved
04-04-2008, 01:43 AM
Try print to file and use postscript printer. That should output a PDF, I believe.

gary4gar
04-04-2008, 01:49 AM
Wrong, I tried it. the output is not reable on windows xp machine
Anyways i Got the solution Myself after a bit of struggle

System>Administration>Printing
I added a New virtual Printer cups-pdf:/


Now i can print, a New Dir named PDF is created in my HOME automatically, and all printed filed can be found there:)

pretty easy.

Mehul, Thanks for Your help

PcEnthu
04-04-2008, 10:08 AM
Since you require the pages only for printing, you can try the Firefox add-on 'Screengrab' which saves the current page in PNG format. With screengrap you have the option to save

1. Complete page
2. Visible portion
3. Custom selection from the visible portion

motobuntu
04-04-2008, 11:07 AM
I'm using bullzip printer, and it works very fine.

praka123
04-04-2008, 11:12 AM
^For Linux? :confused:

gary4gar
04-04-2008, 02:38 PM
Since you require the pages only for printing, you can try the Firefox add-on 'Screengrab' which saves the current page in PNG format. With screengrap you have the option to save

1. Complete page
2. Visible portion
3. Custom selection from the visible portion
There no need of it, there is a easier way out. which is cups-pdf.
Try that, i can post step by step & detailed tutorial for it, if you want. but i think its easy enough, so you wont need any;)

Cool G5
04-04-2008, 03:24 PM
I am in search of same for XP.
I would like to export the entire page as PDF.

prasad_den
04-04-2008, 03:55 PM
I am in search of same for XP.
I would like to export the entire page as PDF.
use dopdf..!

motobuntu
05-04-2008, 11:25 AM
I am in search of same for XP.
I would like to export the entire page as PDF.

@praka, Bullzip Printer for XP

Pathik
05-04-2008, 11:40 AM
@CoolG5 Try exporting it as *.mht/*.mhtml and print it later.

infra_red_dude
05-04-2008, 12:09 PM
I am in search of same for XP.
I would like to export the entire page as PDF.
Use ghostscript + CutePDF

The Unknown
05-04-2008, 12:53 PM
@gary4gar, you have one more option for this -

print the thing to a file (.ps),,

then run the command ps2pdf.

see its man page for more info

CadCrazy
05-04-2008, 01:27 PM
I am in search of same for XP.
I would like to export the entire page as PDF.

Use PDF Creator (http://sourceforge.net/projects/pdfcreator/). Its opensource and come with ghostscript.

Wiki page (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PDFCreator)

gary4gar
05-04-2008, 01:33 PM
@gary4gar, you have one more option for this -

print the thing to a file (.ps),,

then run the command ps2pdf.

see its man page for more info
Thanks Buddy for your suggestion but my problem is solved already;)

In a more hasslefree free manner