Open Bug 1170614 Opened 9 years ago Updated 2 years ago

Consider adding "File -> Export"

Categories

(Core :: Printing: Setup, enhancement)

Product:
Core
Component:
Printing: Setup
Version:
31 Branch
Type:
enhancement

Tracking

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Status:
UNCONFIRMED

People

(Reporter: davidh, Unassigned)

Details

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/31.0
Build ID: Gecko/20100101

Steps to reproduce:

Apparently there's an inbuilt feature in Firefox that generates PDF files from the Menu Bar under "File - Print...." when "Print to File" are selected (this is not default). I expected it to be seen under "File - Save Page As..." so I've completely missed it which resulted in many lost working hours in the hope to find a working PDF exporting add-on, something that's inbuilt.



Actual results:

There's an add-on called PrintPDF that uses Firefox inbuilt "Print to File" function, but its is not good enough as it saves a file directly instead of open the "Print..." window that are filled with a lot of options. Besides this add-on breaks very easily as its supported for Firefox version 3.0a7 to 3.0.* (says its install.rdf).


Expected results:

I suggest that you add "Export" under "File", that when clicked on open the same dialog as "File - Print..." and pre-select "Print to File"?
Severity: normal → enhancement
Component: Untriaged → Menus
Priority: -- → P3
Windows users of Firefox cannot print to PDF unlike Firefox for GNU/Linux.
I guess you mean to highlight the "Print to File" option, moving to let developer see.


(In reply to public from comment #1)
> Windows users of Firefox cannot print to PDF unlike Firefox for GNU/Linux.

Windows 10 provide "Microsoft Print to PDF" option.
Component: Menus → Printing: Setup
Priority: P3 → --
Product: Firefox → Core
Severity: normal → S3
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