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Seeking-Christ

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I have a really hard time concentrating on long threads/comments. The best way for me to get around it is to print it. But on these forums there doesn't seem to be a print mode. Some forums have a print mode. Any suggestions?
 
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Highlight what it is that you want to print, right click, hit 'print'.
 
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Seeking-Christ said:
I have a really hard time concentrating on long threads/comments. The best way for me to get around it is to print it. But on these forums there doesn't seem to be a print mode. Some forums have a print mode. Any suggestions?
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Copy what you want and paste it into Notepad.
 
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People have been writing me stuff that is so in depth, that I need the whole thing, except my original post.

Today I experimented with a terminal browser called w3m. w3m url >print.txt
 
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Seeking-Christ said:
People have been writing me stuff that is so in depth, that I need the whole thing, except my original post.

Today I experimented with a terminal browser called w3m. w3m url >print.txt
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You can print (or export) a webpage to pdf, from there you can print and it will retain all of the formatting that you would lose by usual copy/paste.

I had never heard of w3m before, kudos for sharing
 
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Jocund said:
You can print (or export) a webpage to pdf, from there you can print and it will retain all of the formatting that you would lose by usual copy/paste.

I had never heard of w3m before, kudos for sharing
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It is a terminal web browser for Linux. Doesn't work on Windows.

You can read about it here:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W3m

You can watch someone use it here:

 
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Jocund said:
You can print (or export) a webpage to pdf, from there you can print and it will retain all of the formatting that you would lose by usual copy/paste.

I had never heard of w3m before, kudos for sharing
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Which web browser are you using to print to pdf? I ask because I often use firefox, and sometimes printing to pdf doesn't do all that I need.
 
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Seeking-Christ said:
Which web browser are you using to print to pdf? I ask because I often use firefox, and sometimes printing to pdf doesn't do all that I need.
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Are you using Linux Mint?

If press <ctrl>+p or go to print through the menu

>More Settings

Set to US Letter
Change Scale to about 60% (play around with this until you find a size that you like)

You can also try changing Format to "Simplified" but this can erase the quote boxes which can make it confusing.

If you test this out, I think this is more in line with what you are looking for.

If you change "Destination" to "Save to PDF" it will make a PDF with the print settings. From a PDF you can print specific pages instead of the whole webpage.

Maybe this isn't what you're looking for, but I'll try my best to help you troubleshoot
 
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Jocund said:
Are you using Linux Mint?

If press <ctrl>+p or go to print through the menu

>More Settings

Set to US Letter
Change Scale to about 60% (play around with this until you find a size that you like)

You can also try changing Format to "Simplified" but this can erase the quote boxes which can make it confusing.

If you test this out, I think this is more in line with what you are looking for.

If you change "Destination" to "Save to PDF" it will make a PDF with the print settings. From a PDF you can print specific pages instead of the whole webpage.

Maybe this isn't what you're looking for, but I'll try my best to help you troubleshoot
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The problem is firefox won't print all the pages.
 
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Seeking-Christ said:
I have a really hard time concentrating on long threads/comments. The best way for me to get around it is to print it. But on these forums there doesn't seem to be a print mode. Some forums have a print mode. Any suggestions?
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I do view source for each page and then edit it in Notebook before copying it to Word.
 
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