Reviews for Printable – The Print Doctor
Printable – The Print Doctor by jscher2000
19 reviews
- Rated 5 out of 5by Andrea, 8 months agoFinally an extension that can do a print to pdf without cutting text and pages, but the "Prevent Repeated Elements (Change fixed position to absolute)" option is essential.
(need "restore to default" and really remove date and url from header and footer, please).
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Finalmente una estensione in grado di fare un print to pdf senza tagliare testo e pagine, essenziale però l'opzione "Prevent Repeated Elements (Change fixed position to absolute)" .Developer response
posted 8 months agoHi Andrea, I'm not sure what you need to be rolled back with "restore to default." You could open an issue at https://github.com/jscher2000/printable-print-doctor-extension/issues or send me a message at jscher2000@outlook.com with more details.
I definitely should add control over headers/footers. I have a different add-on (https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/save-to-pdf-now/) which has a more comprehensive panel, so it's certainly possible, I just didn't think to add it here, too. - Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 18349779, 10 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by hmijail, 2 years agoThe only addon that was able to generate a PDF with youtube boxes and selectable text, for free.
- Rated 5 out of 5by usonianhorizon, 2 years agoThis Add-on has solved a maddening problem for me: UPS.com invoices would show, for the most part, as blank either when saving as PDF or when printing obscuring the most critical information. Recently I stumbled across this Add-on, and it worked just as the instructions outlined. Thank you!
- Rated 5 out of 5by Cyberknight, 2 years agoHave you ever tried to print-to-PDF a Page, just to find out that Firefox (or Chrome), for some dumb reason, decided that it'd be a very good idea to convert the whole Page into a series of screenshots, instead of text, resulting in a huge PDF with non-searchable/indexable content. Other times, it might even print text as text, but clipping the content, literally cutting lines in the middle, leaving the upper part of characters on one page and the lower part on the next. Those and other extremely annoying nuisances can be solved, most of the time, by disabling custom fonts and removing all CSS... What makes the resulting Page look like crap and, worst, lose content (like list bullets and numbering, nowadays done entirely as style, instead of being part of the content...) Anyway, this extension tries to solve the printing problems, either to actual paper or to PDF, without completely destroying the Page styling. Some changes may or have to happen for that to be accomplished, but it's a necessary trade and would have to be done, anyway, if the Page was intended to be printed from the very beginning. It reduces lots of time otherwise wasted manually hacking Pages (pressing F12 and trying to fix them), instantly becoming an essential tool for Firefox!
- Rated 5 out of 5by dread_fred, 2 years ago
- Rated 3 out of 5by Korwin, 2 years agoUnfortunately, the add-on does not allow the user to save a long web page into a single page PDF document.
Developer response
posted 2 years agoHi Korwin, the add-on's PDF generator uses the same plumbing as the built-in "Save to PDF" destination on the Print overlay. If the add-on has a problem that doesn't affect the built-in feature, could you contact me at jscher2000@outlook.com or open an issue on https://github.com/jscher2000/printable-print-doctor-extension/issues .
For problems that affect both the add-on and the built-in feature, you could post on Mozilla Support and see whether there is a solution: https://support.mozilla.org/questions/new/desktop/form . - Rated 1 out of 5by Phoinx, 4 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by aikidd, 4 years agoVery helpful addon.
Am I correct in thinking that all of the processing 'Printable – The Print Doctor' does happens within the browser without transmitting anything to other servers?Developer response
posted 4 years ago> Am I correct in thinking that all of the processing 'Printable – The Print Doctor' does happens within the browser without transmitting anything to other servers?
Yes, that is correct.
There is some possibility that injecting the "tweak panels" into the page might be detected by a script in the page, but I don't know whether that is possible. - Rated 5 out of 5by DavidQ, 4 years agoSolved problem of when printing website to PDF the text was saved as image (and so not searchable / selectable / copyable). The 'Printable' add-on as an option to print using basic fonts that solves this problem !
Developer response
posted 4 years agoAnother option would be the new "Save to PDF" printer (introduced with the new combined preview/setup/print overlay in Firefox 84). Starting in Firefox 90, it can embed links. - Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 16382809, 4 years agoAfter 2 hours of frustration, this addon is the only way to print websites without repeated elements. Some of the news outlets I read have repeated elements on top and on the bottom like header or footer, hiding some of the text of their articles when printing. If this addon would also fix the firefox bug, where links are not preserved as such when printing to PDF, then this would be the greatest PDF addon for firefox on the market! Not nice, but actually works!
- Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 16331740, 4 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 15903694, 5 years ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 15877518, 5 years agoAbsolutely worthless; does not do anything. Try this webpage( https://www.allrecipes.com/recipe/50658/thai-peanut-chicken/?printview); second page does not print at all. IE does it just fine!
Developer response
posted 5 years agoWhich buttons did you try on the drop-down panel to fix the problem? Here is an example PDF -- https://www.jeffersonscher.com/ext/Allrecipes_example.pdf -- showing:
(1) Printout from MS Edge for reference
(2) Printout from Firefox 75 without any modifications (content after page 1 is lost)
(3) Printout from Firefox 75 after clicking the "Allow Page Breaks *LIGHT*" button on this extension's drop-down panel to fix the pagination
(4) Printout from Firefox 75 after also clicking the "Use Basic Fonts" button to make the text searchable, which is useful if you are printing to PDF
Hopefully this example illustrates how it is designed to work and will get you the results you're looking for. - Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 14143309, 5 years agoDoes what it says on the tin. Addon has an extremely rich feature set. Would reccommend
- Rated 4 out of 5by Firefox user 14520466, 5 years agoWhile I truly appreciate the effort, unfortunately I had to uninstall it because the overall user experience is quite painful. Buttons are displayed but clicking on them seems to have no effect, I suspect they work like check-boxes, sort of. Still a lot of manual work to do, in order to get the layout right, and the result still not ideal (lots of junk on top, title truncated, tested here: https://www.technologyreview.com/s/614605/sorryorganic-farming-is-actually-worse-for-climate-change). Praise to the developer and shame to the W3C if in 2019 we still need add-ons for the most basic features.
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Thanks for your kind answer. I would then suggest to turn the buttons into check boxes, the proper controls for this, maybe also with some mouseover tooltips to explain the meaning. Without seeing a preview in real time, it's really hard to make an informed decision, even though it's good to see that even without selecting any of those options and just opening the preview, it works nicely. It's actually the only add-on that allows me to nicely print a full reddit page. I would also suggest to not hide the firefox window but leave it in the background, as a reference (the add-on should not open a modal). Just a minor thing. Thanks for the hard work, after testing several options I find that the add-on is the thing that works better.Developer response
posted 5 years agoHi Firefox user 14520466, thank you for your comments. Most of the buttons inject changes that are not visible until you use Print Preview. You need to preview after each change. I would prefer if I could integrate the extension into the Preview page, but I don't think there is a way to do that.
Meanwhile, that MIT Technology Review page is tricky. This could be a case where you want to use Reader View (look for the icon in the address bar) or the equivalent "Simplify Page" checkbox on Firefox's Print Preview screen to isolate the article content.
If you wanted to print with more of the other stuff on the page:
I updated the extension with a new button at the top of the drop-down that is much more selective in the changes it makes (*LIGHT* button in version 1.2). In order to avoid the repeated top menu bar on each page, or having to remove that bar, it's best to scroll back to the top of the article before printing.
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(One day later) In version 1.3, I switched to automatically displaying Print Preview after each change. Hopefully this will be more convenient for most people. You can revert the behavior if you know you need to use multiple options on a page and don't want to have to cancel Print Preview in between. - Rated 5 out of 5by ezrider, 5 years agoGreat add-on which makes it possible to save pages as searchable PDFs. Thanks a lot!
- Rated 5 out of 5by Rick216, 5 years agoReally useful when page breaks screw up the printout, covering up some of the text at the top of many pages. Just a click on Allow Page Breaks fixed it pronto. I haven't even tried other functions yet, but the page break solution and its simplicity alone was worth 5 stars. Sometimes I can solve that kind of thing -- with a bit more effort -- with the excellent PrintWhatYouLike, but not this time.