Wysiwyg web page printing
Is there anyway to force Firefox to print a web page wysiwyg (What You See Is What You Get). For example attempting to print https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/profile-manager-create-and-remove-firefox-profiles#os=win7&browser=fx20 even with the "Print background images and colors" option on results in significant formatting differences form the way the page appears in Firefox.
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Hi hj21c1yg,
I understand from your message that you would like to print to paper, an exact copy of what you see on a screen. Please check if any of the following add-ons could possibly solve your issue:
- Print Pages to PDF (you could print the PDF afterwards, if it is created correctly)
- Capture and Print
- Print Edit
We hope that one of these add-ons are can help you with what you are trying to accomplish. Please let us know if this solves your issue, or if you have any other questions.
Thanks!!
- Ralph
Note that a lot of web pages use a special stylesheet for printing, so would need to take a screenshot of the full page and print the resulting image to get an exact representation.
Current Firefox versions have a built-in feature to take a screenshot as part of the Web Developer Toolbar.
- Web Developer > Developer Toolbar
You can use this if you only need a screenshot occasionally because you need to use a command line and can't click a button or use the context menu.
A quick way to save a screenshot is to press the "s", then the F1 key will bring up a help pop-up where you can click the "screenshot" entry' or use cursor up/down and enter.
You will have to type the options yourself because clicking an entry in the pop-up that appears after the first "-" doesn't work.
The default file name is "Screen Shot yyyy-mm-dd at HH.MM.SS.png" in the download directory. help screenshot
screenshot -- screenshot --fullpage fullpage.png
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