On Sun 06 Jan 2019 at 10:28:55 -0600, David Wright wrote: > On Sun 06 Jan 2019 at 10:37:48 (-0500), Gene Heskett wrote: > > On Sunday 06 January 2019 10:17:16 Brian wrote: > > > On Sun 06 Jan 2019 at 14:42:08 +0100, deloptes wrote:
[...] > > > Strictly speaking, the problem does not arise due a problem in the > > > printing system. Firefox produces a PDF before dispatching it for > > > printing and that PDF is not a true representation of the web page. > > > > > > Whether the issue is tackled by Firefox or at the stackexchange end > > > is immaterial; this will take time. Meanwhile, there is an elderly > > > user who had hoped to read and absorb the material today while eating > > > his free lunch. > > > > > > Maybe he would like to use SHIFT+F2 with Firefox (I have Quantum) and > > > take a screenshot of the whole page. > > > > Two questions then, Brian: Where in the FF menu's does one find this > > magic key combo documented? > > I was under the impression that taking screenshots was under the > control of the window manager, so the key combinations might be quite > different for other users. No. FF uses SHIFT+F2. > For example, my fvwm uses Shift-F2 for speaker-volume-down because the > Lenovo-W10 system chose to engrave {Speaker]- on the key. > > But if FF can take a screenshot itself, I would hope that you get > the whole page, not just the whole window (which is all the WM can > give you, of course) because configuring an application like scrot > can give you *much* more functionality. There is no "if" about it; your hopes would also be fulfilled. > > > screenshot filename.png --fullpage > > > > And pray tell, where does it stash this .png? FF it seems, goes out of > > their way to select where it stashes a downloadable file. Its instructed > > to ask me, but rarely does. > > # find / -type f -mmin -10 > > for files created in the last 10 minutes, say. > > > > Use TAB to complete and move along the command line. The file produced > > > is named filename-fullpage.png and is, of course, printable. > > > > Good to know. > > Yes, but some of the advice given seems to come with a lot of attitude. Don't understand this. You would have to explain. -- Brian.