My thesis is due Friday and I need to save a couple of online articles as PDFs for my sources, but every time I try the layout comes out broken. Any ideas?
Try opening the article in Reader Mode first, then use the browser’s Print option and choose “Save as PDF.” Check the print preview and turn off headers, footers, and background graphics if they mess up the pages. I do this on my phone for receipts, and reader mode usually strips out the ads causing the broken layout. Keep the original URL and access date for your citation too.
The “save page as” option is usually what wrecks the layout. Open the article, hit Ctrl+P, and pick “Save as PDF” as the printer instead. Chrome handles most news sites decently, and if a page still falls apart, its reader view first usualy fixes it. Did that help, and are you on a phone or laptop?
If you just need a readable copy, open the article in your browser and use Print, then choose “Save as PDF.” Turn on background graphics if the page has charts or colored sections. If the site still breaks it up, PDFcap can capture the page into a cleaner PDF; just check that the article title, author, date, and URL are included for your citations.
Use the browser’s print function: press Ctrl+P and choose Save as PDF as the printer. Broken layout usually comes from the site’s print stylesheet, so open the article in reader view first (the icon in the address bar in Firefox, Edge or Safari) and print from there. Keep headers and footers ticked so the URL and date stay on the page for your citations.
Try opening the article in Reader Mode first, then press Ctrl+P (Cmd+P on Mac) and choose “Save to PDF” as the printer. In the print window, set the layout to Portrait, scale to 90-95%, and turn off headers and footers. I learned this the hard way: check the saved PDF page by page, since some ads or images can still shift around. Keep the original URL and access date with the file for your thesis notes.
Print to PDF from your browser usually works best, just hit print and pick save as PDF. If it’s breaking, try a different browser first, Chrome handles it pretty well.
Are you using the browser’s print to PDF option? That usually mangles layouts on news sites with ads/columns. Quick fix I use:
- Open the article, hit Ctrl+P (or Cmd+P on Mac), choose “Save as PDF” as the printer.
- Before saving, switch to Reader View in the browser first (the little icon in the address bar) then print, it strips out the junk layout.
- Check the saved file opens fine before Friday, keep the original link/screenshot as backup in case text reflows weird.