Submitted by WayneK on 2020/04/24 19:49
Does anyone know of a print to pdf solution that will capture comments along with web articles?
 
When I do research and take notes in InfoQube I like to have a pdf copy of the original source so I can mark up which sections I've taken notes on.
 
For web articles, I select the text of the article and use Print>selection>print to PDF to create a pdf of the article.
 
Some of the articles have comments at the end which I want to include in the PDF.  For some reason, the pdf printer will not recognize these on some websites.
 
I've tried multiple pdf printers and all the top Firefox PDF addons, including screen capture software.  Nothing works correctly.
 
Does anyone have any other ideas to try?  Manual copy/paste and formatting of extensive comments is a pain.

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Wayne, please provide a representative sample, and I'll experiment.

Thanks, Keith.  I've pretty well decided which way I'm going after spending way too much time on this.
 
Just in case you want to mess around with it, here is an example of a webpage where I was unable to get the comments to print no matter which pdf printer I used:
 
 
In general, this system works well: select text>print>selection>to pdf.  But for some reason this doesn't work on any of the articles on this website.
 
I ended up getting the Firefox addon Fireshot.  It's not ideal but does do a screenshot of any webpage, capturing everything and saving it as a pdf.
 
A direct print to PDF would still be preferable but I can live with this solution.
 
Wayne
 
 

Tom

2020/04/25 01:50

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[quote=WayneK]
 
In general, this system works well: select text>print>selection>to pdf.  But for some reason this doesn't work on any of the articles on this website.
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Might it be a Firefox problem? I use Firefox but never print -- and didn't know it has that "print selection" capability (I remember using IE occasionally a few years back because it could do that, and the other browsers couldn't at the time)

WayneK

2020/04/25 11:35

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Doesn't work in Chrome either.  I did not try any other browsers.  There's something about the website formatting, I guess, that makes the comments text invisible to printers.  If I select just one paragraph of a comment and try to print that, it prints a blank page.
 
Wayne
 

For the record, I was able to use Snagit 10, with settings of "image capture", With scrolling window enabled, you could snag the entire 50 comments of comment page 1 then print to pdf from the snagit editor.
For your example, you'd have to do this 3 times to get everything, 
It's probably about as easy to select the comment text, then throw it into an editor and pdf it from there.
 
As far as I can tell from the html, the comments seem to be stored on 3 separate pages
 

Tom

2020/04/25 16:29

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[quote=KeithB]It's probably about as easy to select the comment text, then throw it into an editor and pdf it from there.[/quote]
this would seem like a good suggestion
(I didnt have any success with my PDF printer either)

WayneK

2020/04/25 16:31

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That's exactly what I'm doing with Fireshot.  I actually have a couple of programs that supposedly do scrolling screenshots to capture long pages but neither worked very well.  I do have a Snagit license but haven't used it in a long time.  Another option if Fireshot doesn't work out.
 
Supposedly Fireshot will screen capture multiple open tabs at the same time but I haven't tried it yet.  That would be a way to get multi-page comments.  But doing separate screen caps of each page then combining them in one file is easy enough.
 
Thanks for looking into it.
 
Wayne
 

carloscadu

2020/05/21 09:19

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 Hi @WayneK
 
You could create the PDF with comments through this workflow (screencast: https://bit.ly/2ZAUPx9):
 
1- Select text + comments
2- Clip selection using Evernote web clipper
3- From Evernote note, generate the PDF: File>Print to PDF
 
Cheers,
Carlos