How to create a multi-page JPG or PDF

On 2014-11-02 21:33:56 +0000, nospam said:

In article , Peter Flynn
wrote:

Why is printing to PDF failing so miserably on all of us?

Because the nice folks at Adobe (owners of Flash) have done a deal
with the nice folks who write the browsers to PREVENT you doing
ANYTHING except view the page online?

no.

Judging by the arrival times of your posts, i suspect you are still
running on Daylight Savings Time.

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In article 2014110215555629937-savageduck1@REMOVESPAMmecom,
Savageduck wrote:

Why is printing to PDF failing so miserably on all of us?

Because the nice folks at Adobe (owners of Flash) have done a deal
with the nice folks who write the browsers to PREVENT you doing
ANYTHING except view the page online?

no.

Judging by the arrival times of your posts, i suspect you are still
running on Daylight Savings Time.

i'm not, however, the newsreader app i use has a time zone bug where it
needs to be relaunched whenever the time zone changes.

On Sat, 01 Nov 2014 11:52:28 -0700, Thad Floryan responded thusly to:

Is there a way to create a multi-page PDF or JPG of static flash content?

The "Screengrab (fix version) 0.98.02c" addon to Firefox [right-click
context menu] select "Save - Complete page/frame" (aka Ctrl + Shift + !)
creates a single PNG file

Neat Hallowe'en treat, Thad -- many thanks for that tip. Cheers, -- tlvp
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nospam wrote, on Sun, 02 Nov 2014 14:36:51 -0400:

install the ny times app.

That's not a solution.

You can't (and shouldn't need to) install *every* app there ever was,
just to view every web page that uses flash.

Mayayana wrote, on Sun, 02 Nov 2014 15:18:57 -0500:

Maybe they're trying to force the NYT app that Savageduck is talking
about.

That doesn't really help.
I was able to print the NYT web page using the Screengrab extension.
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/fir...b-fix-version/

That's the same (short term) workaround (effectively) as installing the
NYTimes App since that's not the only flash on the net.

So, you can't (and shouldn't) have to install *every* app on the planet
just to view flash content.

So, I found this workaround, but I agree as much as anyone that it's a
short term solution to a long term problem (as is the NYT app).

nospam wrote, on Sun, 02 Nov 2014 14:17:45 -0400:

meanwhile, the nytimes app will work properly, without issue, and
provide a much nicer user experience.

And what do you use for every other web page that uses flash?

Having to install every single web page app on the planet can't possibly
be the suggestion long-term solution.

Can it?

| I was able to print the NYT web page using the Screengrab extension.
| https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/fir...b-fix-version/
|
| That's the same (short term) workaround (effectively) as installing the
| NYTimes App since that's not the only flash on the net.
|
And it's not really a solution, since it's
only allowing you to get an image, but not
allowing your sister to see the page.

There's a lot of very funky webpage coding
going on these days. I'm very curious about
the reasons. Large amounts of obfuscated script
have become common, with some pages being
little but script. And I increasingly see pages
where simple IMG tags have been designed with
a dummy SRC attribute, or none at all, while a
data-src attribute provides the URL of the image.
It's a method at odds with the guidelines of
HTML5 (which says that data-* should never
replace an existing attribute) and it also hobbles
the webpage, requiring script just to make the
images on the page visible. The only possible
reason I can think of for such brittle and
unnecessary code is that the author wants to
make sure their page is broken without javascript.

On 2014-11-04, Jonathan Williams wrote:
nospam wrote, on Sun, 02 Nov 2014 14:36:51 -0400:

install the ny times app.

That's not a solution.

You can't (and shouldn't need to) install *every* app there ever was,
just to view every web page that uses flash.

Unfortunately the designers of web pages are usually incompetent, and
keep trying until their own system ( in this case probably using the
times app) works. So, yes it is the solution to this case.

On 2014-11-04, Jonathan Williams wrote:
nospam wrote, on Sun, 02 Nov 2014 14:17:45 -0400:

meanwhile, the nytimes app will work properly, without issue, and
provide a much nicer user experience.

And what do you use for every other web page that uses flash?

Having to install every single web page app on the planet can't possibly
be the suggestion long-term solution.

Can it?

And you want a cure for cancer as well as incomptence? The former is
probably easier.

In comp.text.pdf Jonathan Williams wrote:
nospam wrote, on Sat, 01 Nov 2014 22:49:22 -0400:

talk about overcomplicating things.

The simple answer would be two simple steps:
1. Point Firefox to
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/y...s-gallery.html

2. Press File Print and save as PDF.

But that, simple answer, fails, every time.


Bug 134002 - Content of plugins (flash, java applets) doesn't get rendered
for printing or print preview:
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=134002

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX


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