Save single-page Safari-generated PDFs

Nov 26, '03 11:13:00AM

Contributed by: inspired_tmu

Saving a web page as a PDF in Safari is a pain. Unless the page is really small, you're going to end up with multi-page PDFs, and they're even going to be scaled down to match the width of your paper size. Without getting into the why, here is how to take a single-page PDF snapshot of a web page:

  1. Set up a really freaking big custom paper size:
  2. Save your web page as a PDF:
  3. Crop the image:
And you're done!

[robg adds: A couple other things to consider. One, if you do a lot of this stuff, get SnapWeb. It's $15.00 (or $30.00 for commercial use), but it uses Safari's rendering engine and makes it simple to save a web snapshot without any page breaks. Second, when I was testing this, I had troubles if I increased the page width -- sites that have infinite-width tables would render on the printed output as super wide. Instead, I just changed the page length and left the width alone.]

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