Printing webpage to PDF

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I'm having no luck as yet on Google for this, how do one print an entire page to PDF from a website?

I'm trying to print a website AWStats to PDF and it is a couple of pages to scroll down. I can get one A4's worth printed no problem, but not the entire report in one go.

Is there a way to do this? Pull the entire page in one go?
 
The problem is everything I try only grabs what is visible (on screen) in the current tab, not the entire content. I'll try PDFCreator now and let you know.

EDIT:
Hang on, isn't PDFCreator a Windows only app?
 
Same problem, only grabs the first section of the page that is visible on the monitor.


This is again a Windows only app, this is the Linux section.
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The web page probably has Ajax tabs so it isn't a single web page.
 
You should be able to install a virtual PDF printer and then it should print to PDF anything that you would ordinarily print to a physical printer.

So the next question really is, what happens when you try to print on paper? If the stuff still disappears the PDF isn't your problem.
 
I'm having no luck as yet on Google for this, how do one print an entire page to PDF from a website?

I'm trying to print a website AWStats to PDF and it is a couple of pages to scroll down. I can get one A4's worth printed no problem, but not the entire report in one go.

Is there a way to do this? Pull the entire page in one go?

Just select print, then print to PDF
 
The problem is everything I try only grabs what is visible (on screen) in the current tab, not the entire content. I'll try PDFCreator now and let you know.

EDIT:
Hang on, isn't PDFCreator a Windows only app?

Sorry, it appeared on the What's New section.
I did not realise it was actually in the linux area.
 
The web page probably has Ajax tabs so it isn't a single web page.

This put me onto the path to a solution. It seems Ajax and the normal "Print to PDF" does not work so well.

I installed the "Print pages to PDF" Firefox addon, selected it to print all tabs and this time around it worked a charm. Thanks for the suggestion!
 
There's a cups add-on for printing to pdf. Haven't used it in yonks though.
 
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