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PDF files of webpages

Asked by Ron

I wonder how one could make a PDF file of the content of a web page in Ubuntu. There's a nice feature in Safari (OS X) where you click on a button called "Reader" and it gives you the *real* content of the web page you're visiting (i.e., excluding ads, and irrelevant material that you'd usually find at the very top or bottom of a web page). Then you can export it as a PDF file. I wonder if there's a similar feature on Firefox or in Ubuntu.

Any tips and advice would be most appreciated.

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marcus aurelius (adbiz) said : 		#1

to get a pdf file, you just print the webpage.it defaults to pdf.
to get rid of the ads, you can install firefox addons. ads aren't necessarily at the top or bottom of the webpages. unless you mean the page headers and footers.

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Ron (ronald17b95) said : 		#2

Can you tell me the names of the addons I should install for Firefox to get rid of ads and headers/footers?

Is there anyway for me to edit or to modify pdf files? Such as underlining certain lines or highlighting or making notes on the margins?

Thanks so much!

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Best mycae (mycae) said : 		#3

adblock plus
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1865/
And adblock helper
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/4364/

You can use the PDF reader "okular" to do this, but note that the annotations are stored separately to the PDF itself (the PDF is unmodified), and thus moving the PDF will break the connection between the stored annotations and the PDF itself (its a hack, and the developers acknowledge this, but have not fixed it yet)

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=151614

Alternately, PDF editing software, such as pdfxchange-viewer can be run under wine

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Ron (ronald17b95) said : 		#4

Thanks mycae, that solved my question.