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I am reading the original webpage on Google Chrome on Win11 and I have the Microsoft Print to PDF driver installed. A simple print to PDF through this virtual p

• criddell 4y ago
  I can print to PDF as well, but that captures the entire page and I really only want the article. For example, I don’t want the “Recent Writings” column to the right of the article.
  • vivegi 4y ago
    The print version has the Recent Writings rendered at the end of the document. On my machine with "US Letter" page size and "No header/footer" I got 72 pages. The main article was 69 pages and the last three were the "cruft" (which includes the Recent Writings). A quick hack might be to postprocess the PDF (eg: using Ghostscript) and trim the last three pages, if all you want is the main article.
    • criddell 4y ago
      Well that’s strange. If I print to PDF I get the article exactly as it’s laid out on screen. I did get what I want with the OneNote clipper. Edit: Now when I try to print this article to PDF from my phone or iPad, the browser crashes immediately. Something weird is going on with my devices...
      • vivegi 4y ago
        It is probably something to do with Safari/WebKit (assuming you are printing from your iPhone/iPad). The page uses a media query for print in the CSS sheet linked to it. That does most of the heavy lifting for laying out the print page.