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Re: PDF fun



 John Abreau wrote: 
> One thing I'm unsatisfied with is saving web pages to PDF. 
> The best I've found is Cups-PDF, which acts as a printer 
> driver to create PDF files, but the individual pages come 
> out as embedded images, not as text. I'm not sure if the 
> problem is with Firefox, CUPS, or the Cups-PDF driver, 
> or some combination of the parts. 
> 
> The band-aid workaround I currently use is to save the web 
> page from Firefox, scp the .html file and _files directory 
> over to a MacOSX box, and then open it with Safari on the 
> MacOSX box and print to PDF. 
> 
> Has anyone found a way to save web pages to PDF that 
> doesn't convert the pages to embedded images? 


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