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Turn a Long Webpage into a PDF with a Single iPhone Screenshot

diego said:
Useful feature but talk about unintuitive!
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How is it unintuitive? You do the screenshot, you select Full Page and the you Share or Save it - as normal.
diego said:
The best example of this is rearranging icons in the home screen - it used to be easy and fun with the wiggle effect, but now it is almost impossible before other annoying menus pop up or you end up messing everything because one icon moved to the next page and changed the order of all your apps. It used to be simple, and more often than not simpler is actually better.
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The trick to editing without the context menu for an icon appearing is to long press a space without icons or between icons instead of long pressing on an icon. That starts wiggle mode without any menu.
 
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I have a giggle when people disagree with my comments ngl. The disagree button is such low effort as to be a useless option. People should need to explain their disagreements like an adult.
 
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NetMage said:
How is it unintuitive? You do the screenshot, you select Full Page and the you Share or Save it - as normal.

The trick to editing without the context menu for an icon appearing is to long press a space without icons or between icons instead of long pressing on an icon. That starts wiggle mode without any menu.
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It’s unintuitive because the steps you listed are not all of the steps. Go back and read the article, saving it as a PDF is like finding Narnia.

Your shortcut to get into app icon wiggle mode is a handy one, but actually moving the icons around into rows and folders is programmed poorly compared to how smoothly it worked when Steve Jobs was alive. Heads would roll if he was alive now for how poorly this interface is programmed. It improved slightly with iOS 18, but works nowhere near as precisely as it did back then.
 
russell_314 said:
Now, if we can only get a save as photo option. If you’re sending someone a screenshot in a text, you don’t want to send them a PDF. It’s not a job application.
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Eh. I don't think it really matters. Once you open it it works very nicely.
 
I am trying to do this with emails and saving them as single page PDF, but is there any way to preserve the HTML formatting like background colours and layout? As soon as I save as ‘full page’ then all the formatting details are lost
 
Testing, I find it keeps the formatting (layout, fonts etc) but loses backgrounds and links on iOS (Reply -> Print). On the desktop it keeps the links but still loses backgrounds. I'm not sure what you mean by 'full page' (i.e. I can't see an option like that on the print dialogue).
 
‘Full page’, as in same as screenshot for an email with HTML instead of webpage:

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ah, my confusion.
It seems to depend on the email. A screenshot pdf and a print-to-pdf of the notification e-mail I received for your reply were identical, and messed up royally by the software not wanting to divide the screenshot image in your post. Another I tested lost images altogether via the screenshot method but not via the print option, and another (below) turned out perfect with both. (Both from the phone, for avoidance of doubt.) Can't help any more than that I'm afraid.
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Thanks, it does depend on the particular email/webpage. It looks like I will have to take single page screenshots and stitch them together manually for pages that don’t show the elements that I want
 
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