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Save page as? Note, I'm not refering to print to pdf here.

• Dylan16807 9y ago
  What's the difference?
  • tempay 9y ago
    Printing tries to reformat the page to fit on some paper size and often removes details such as the background. Often it would be nice to make a PDF that shows a screenshot of the full current page, extensions exist for this but ntjifn natively.
    • kazinator 9y ago
      Why PDF then; it could be saved as a PNG, which an ImageMagick one-liner can turn into a PDF (or several of them into a multi-pager). It would be good if a way was available for any application to take a full window screenshot, rather than the viewport screenshot.
      • izacus 9y ago
        PNG is an image format which is usually significantly larger than the corresponding PDF document and rendered at fixed quality. PDF is (mostly) a vector format which can be resized at will.
        • kazinator 9y ago
          But "details such as the background" will probably consist of a whole lot of raster images.
          • tempay 9y ago
            Or just a block of colour which will be very efficient. If there are images they are probably jpegs and can be embedded in the PDF without any loss of quality while still keeping the quality benefits of a vector format for text.
      • porker 9y ago
        > Why PDF then It's nice to have the web page's text searchable without having to OCR the PNG.