895911 - Add "As PDF" as a format for "Save Page" dialog

Status: NEW

(Toolkit :: General, defect)

Description

[Madhava Enros [:madhava]]

Currently, "Save Page" does what most developers or advanced users want, which is to have a couple of ways of saving the page as HTML/CSS, or a collection of text files.

A common usecase that we're missing is saving a page as a PDF -- i.e. just to have a record that won't go away of a transaction (a receipt) or an article. We have "Save as PDF" in Firefox for Android at the moment to address this usecase.

Users can technically do this, at least on mac, by going through Print, but I think that's not obvious for a lot of users.

Finally - with the Australis UI rework, the Save Page option is newly more prominent than before, which I think will mean more people will use it to try to do this -- which makes this an excellent time to have it do what I suspect they're looking for.

(PDF could possibly even be the default?)

Comment 1

[Matthew N. [:MattN]]

The save dialog code to change is in toolkit/content/contentAreaUtils.js but depends on bug 162659 being implemented.

Comment 2

[Matthew N. [:MattN]]

It's actually not clear what platform work still needs to be done so this may just be a dupe of bug 162659. That bug is in Core::Graphics though but I think that may be mostly for OS X support.