Print as laid out on screen option not avaiable?

[Bill in Co]

Apparently this option is not available (or at least is greyed out)? I'm
using both IE8 and FF in WinXP, and it's evidently not an available option.

What I'd like to be able to do is have the option to print a web page
exactly as it appears on the screen (and ultimately I'd use doPDF or novaPDF
to capture and save that as a PDF file).

Note: Print Preview simply shows the regular web page printing, which is NOT
as laid out on the screen (ie.e. a lot of stuff is missing, apparently by
design). So I can see what the printout will look like, but it is NOT what
is really seen on the screen when you look at it. As an example, go to
Wikipedia and use Print Preview and you'll see the preview is quite
different than what you see on the screen, no matter what Print or Page or
Properties options you select.

So, does anyone know how to print a web page as laid out on the screen? Or
if there is some utility that will do it (or at least a plug-in for FF)? I
can't find anything.

(My printer is a HP1018, but I don't think that matters here, since I'm
going to be printing to PDF anyways, using a pdf driver like doPDF). (I
looked around on the web but couldn't find anything that addresses this
issue. Apparently nobody wants to print a web page exactly as it's laid out
on the screen (?).

[Bob Willard]

If you are lucky, your KBD will have a PrintScreen button, which will
copy the screen image to the clipboard. Then, you can use your imaging
app (Photoshop or PaintShop or ...) to copy the image from the clipboard
as a new image, and you can use that app to crop out irrelevant stuff.
--
Cheers, Bob

[Bill in Co]

Thanks, and yes I've done that on occasions, but I'm looking for a way to
print the *complete* web page content (as you would see when you scroll it,
just as you would see when you read it). The idea being to get WYSIWYG for
the printed content. Evidently this is not a popular desire for most
folks. :-)

[Paul]

Bill in Co wrote:

> Bob Willard wrote:

>> If you are lucky, your KBD will have a PrintScreen button, which will
>> copy the screen image to the clipboard. Then, you can use your imaging
>> app (Photoshop or PaintShop or ...) to copy the image from the clipboard
>> as a new image, and you can use that app to crop out irrelevant stuff.
>> --
>> Cheers, Bob
>
> Thanks, and yes I've done that on occasions, but I'm looking for a way to
> print the *complete* web page content (as you would see when you scroll it,
> just as you would see when you read it). The idea being to get WYSIWYG for
> the printed content. Evidently this is not a popular desire for most
> folks. :-)

The desire is undoubtedly there, but there
is a distinct lack of implementations. For some
software products, it's a miracle they can print
at all.

How many software products, have you attempted to
select "Shrink to fit", only to have your output
sent at 100% scale and fall off the page ? I wouldn't
trust these same people, to figure out how to select
the viewport you see on your screen, and reproduce it
on a sheet of paper. Not gonna happen in my lifetime :-)

And screenshots aren't the answer either, unless you
turn off ClearType first. And the colors might still
be off, even with that fix.

You would be better off printing to PDF, and attempting
some post-editing of that, to get a desired result.
Note that some word processing tools, it's simply
impossible to get good output from them. Even their
Export to PDF doesn't work right, and uses the same
crippled print engine, as the thing that makes the
lousy paper prints for you.

Paul

[aeroloose]

On 6/22/2014 12:50 AM, Bill in Co wrote:

SnagIt (15-day free trial) will do just what you want
(WYSIWYG). It'll also do a scrolling capture of a "webpage
longer than the monitor display" situation.