Google Chrome prints PDF

Posted on: Dec 6th 2011

Many of us must be reading a lot of articles on net. And many a times we want to save those articles. One way is to go to the file menu of the browser and do a save as, but that is old fashion. You will get an HTML file and a folder with the images and everything is too difficult to manage when you have like more than even 20 to 30 articles.

PDFs are one very innovative way of keeping articles, plus there are many PDF reader application which can really change the way you read on handheld devices.

So, how Google Chrome comes into picture? Well, I am not sure how long this feature was, but recently I found out that Google Chrome can also print PDFs from a web page. Let's take an example for http://amitavroy.com/justread/content/articles/how-use-hooktheme-and-hooknodeload-drupal-7. If I want to save this article as a PDF file so that I can read it or may be print it later on, Google Chrome can do that for me.

The full screen of Google Chrome print

This is the print window which you will get when you do a Ctrl + P on the page that you want to print. You will get Print to PDF option and that is which will create the magic for you.

Print to PDF by Google Chrome