I am not sure when PDF writing capabilities were added to Google Chrome but a big shout out to Ashwan Lewis and Sachin Kalbag for bringing this to my attention. You can also use Chrome’s PDF engine to convert your local image files, text files and any local HTML web pages to PDFs – if you an open a file in Chrome, it can convert the file to PDF. If you’d like to double-check, navigate to your save location, open the PDF, and see if it looks correct. After that, the website will be saved as a PDF file in the location you chose. This is especially useful for downloading PDF copies of web pages that involve transactions or session data – like the checkout page on a shopping website – because you often cannot pass such pages to any online PDF conversion service. Choose the path you’d like to save the PDF file to (and rename the file if necessary), then click Save. You neither have to install any software on your computer nor any extensions in your browser because Google Chrome itself acts as the PDF writer. Open any web page inside Google Chrome, press Ctrl+P (or Cmd+P if you are on a Mac) to open the Print dialog and change the destination printer to “Save as PDF.” Hit the Print button and the current web page will instantly download as a PDF document. It has also been used on the server side, for example in. 6 The first version of the V8 engine was released at the same time as the first version of Chrome: 2 September 2008. It may even completely disappear if Google decides to drop that feature.While there are plenty of PDF writing software and online conversion services around that can help you save web pages as PDF files, the fact is that you don’t need any of them as long as you have Google Chrome on your computer. V8 is a free and open-source JavaScript engine developed by the Chromium Project for Google Chrome and Chromium web browsers. This also means that this feature might change its name, the way it looks or works before it graduates out of the “flag” status. That means this feature may not be available on the stable version of Google Chrome for now. A Note About Chrome FlagsĪs all the Chrome flags go, this is an experimental feature. Look for the checkbox that says “Print as image”.
Open up a PDF and go to the Print view (CTRL + P). The direct URL to access this flag is chrome://flags/#print-pdf-as-image.Įnable this flag and restart Google Chrome. Go to chrome://flags and look for “Print Pdf as Image”. How To Enable “Print PDF as Image” In ChromeĬurrently, this feature is available behind a flag. Now, Google is bringing this feature to Chrome’s PDF viewer as well. This option is part of Adobe’s Acrobat PDF viewer. Printing PDF as an image avoids any of that from happening. For example, a PDF file can contain damaged content such as images or fonts that Acrobat cannot process during printing”. How To Enable “Print PDF as Image” In ChromeĪccording to Adobe, “problems can occur when you print a PDF file.
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