Feature request: Auto-open pdf file after saving
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(Firefox :: File Handling, enhancement)
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(Reporter: thoste, Unassigned)
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User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:125.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/125.0
Steps to reproduce:
As you know users can print the current webpage into pdf file by pressing <ctrl> + P and select "Save to PDF" as destination.
In the appearing print dialog pane at the the right side I click on button "Save" and the pdf is successfully generated and saved into the default directory.
Good.
Firefox should (at least optionally) AUTOMATICALLY open afterwards the just saved pdf file with the default pdf viewer (on Windows)?
Actual results:
Currently nothing happens.
Expected results:
See above
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Comment 1•1 year ago
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The Bugbug bot thinks this bug should belong to the 'Firefox::File Handling' component, and is moving the bug to that component. Please correct in case you think the bot is wrong.
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Comment 2•1 year ago
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Thomas Stein, quick question to save the pdf with Ctrl+P you already have it open, why do you what to open it again? Also in about:preferences, under Applications you can select your default pdf viewer to open pdf files.
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Comment 3•1 year ago
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@Monica
I have the webpage open: but only in browser.
I want to verifiy that the webpage content is printed correctly into pdf file.
So the just saved pdf file should be re-opened with external pdf viewer.
Why re-opening?
It could be e.g. that:
- I accidentally enabled print background in past
- the page width printed into pdf is different from the width in browser
- Not all embedded images are printed due to lazy loading
- Firefox has some bugs with the webpage content and printed it in bad layout.
Have a look e.g. at this bug which was unsolved for years and fixed only recently
http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=3084194&p=14912198#p14912198
The pdf is currently NOT automatically opened in external viewer
Yes, as you suggested I setup
about:preferences ----> Applications default pdf viewer
for XChange PDF Viewer, but Firefox seems not recognize it.
PDF XChange Viewer works perfect here (on Windows 10) since years and from other software (Thunderbird).
So this is a bug in Firefox.
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Comment 4•1 year ago
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Marking as new since it is an enhancement.
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