Question 1

How to print a web page without ads

Accepted Answer

Paste the page URL into a printer-friendly tool, or turn on your browser Reader mode, then press Ctrl+P. Both strip ads, menus and sidebars before the page reaches your printer, usually reducing a long article from eight or nine sheets to two or three.

Question 2

How to print only the part of a page you selected

Accepted Answer

Highlight the text you want, press Ctrl+P (Cmd+P on Mac), and choose "Selection only" under the pages option in the print dialog. Chrome, Firefox and Edge all support this. Safari uses "Print Selected Text" from the File menu after you select.

Question 3

Web page printing problems and how to fix them

Accepted Answer

Most web page printing problems come from three causes: the page is wider than the paper, background graphics are disabled, or the site has no print stylesheet. Fix them by switching to landscape, lowering the scale to 80 percent, enabling background graphics, or printing through a printer-friendly view.

Question 4

How to save a web page as a PDF on iPhone and iPad

Accepted Answer

On iPhone and iPad, open the page in Safari, tap the Share button, tap Options under the page title, choose PDF, then tap Save to Files. For a picture-perfect copy instead, take a screenshot, tap the thumbnail, switch to Full Page and save the PDF.

Question 5

How to extract all the text from a PDF

Accepted Answer

First test whether the PDF has a text layer: try to select a sentence. If text highlights, drop the file into a text extractor and export a .txt, you get every page at once with the reading order preserved. If nothing highlights, the pages are images and you must run OCR before any extraction will work.

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