Recently I wanted to save a long webpage as a pdf so I could read it later and send it to someone, but I've discovered that Chrome Beta doesn't seem to have *any* print functions whatsoever... Since the desktop counterpart has the pretty handy print-to-pdf capability, I wonder why it was left out in the Android version?
More to the point: does anyone know a way to print to pdf from Chrome or Opera Mini? These are the browsers I use mostly. I've read Dolphin HD has it, but I'd really prefer not to have to install a fourth browser on this thing...
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Can't offer an answer about converting webpages to PDF.
As far as printing from the web I tried a few printing apps and I always end up using "Printer Share" from the Play store.
I have Google cloud print set-up and working also.
Finding it complex when just trying accomplish a quick print from the web or any doc in the cloud.
Do you use Evernote?
I find it to be the easiest way to keep/share web pages.
Evernote on Android does not have the same functionality it has on Chrome Windows with the Web Clipper extension installed.
But what's the difference between keeping or mailing an actual web page to the link to it???
And that's easily accomplished in Chrome or the stock browser through the "share" function.
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Thats OK said:
Can't offer an answer about converting webpages to PDF.
As far as printing from the web I tried a few printing apps and I always end up using "Printer Share" from the Play store.
I have Google cloud print set-up and working also.
Finding it complex when just trying accomplish a quick print from the web or any doc in the cloud.
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I'm not really interested in actual prints. I just wanted to print-to-pdf as a way of keeping a long webpage for offline use and annotation. Thanks for the reply anyway
berndblb said:
Do you use Evernote?
I find it to be the easiest way to keep/share web pages.
Evernote on Android does not have the same functionality it has on Chrome Windows with the Web Clipper extension installed.
But what's the difference between keeping or mailing an actual web page to the link to it???
And that's easily accomplished in Chrome or the stock browser through the "share" function.
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I have an Evernote account, but haven't installed it on my Transformer as I don't really use it much. My idea was simply to save a webpage as a pdf for offline use and annotation. Can I do that in Evernote?
Chrome for the desktop has a great print-to-pdf function. Not only that, it also has a save-to-Google-Drive function in the print menu that saves a webpage as a pdf in your Drive account. I wish either were available on Android...
daemonios said:
I'm not really interested in actual prints. I just wanted to print-to-pdf as a way of keeping a long webpage for offline use and annotation....
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i realise you don't want to install more browsers, but ...
just wanted to confirm that 'boat browser' has addon also for web2pdf ...
and both work awsum
daemonios said:
Recently I wanted to save a long webpage as a pdf so I could read it later and send it to someone, but I've discovered that Chrome Beta doesn't seem to have *any* print functions whatsoever... Since the desktop counterpart has the pretty handy print-to-pdf capability, I wonder why it was left out in the Android version?
More to the point: does anyone know a way to print to pdf from Chrome or Opera Mini? These are the browsers I use mostly. I've read Dolphin HD has it, but I'd really prefer not to have to install a fourth browser on this thing...
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UrlToPDF on the Play Store works well for me.
Thanks everyone who chipped in. I'll give URLtoPDF a try, if that doesn't work I'll check out DolphinHD.
Suggestions for you
Based on my own experience, it is super easy to save webpage as PDF. You just need to use browsers like Chrome, Firefox, Microsoft Edge, etc, or other online PDF converters. The only drawback that you might don't like to use these ways is that they can be done easily on desktop.
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I am a proud Xoom owner/user but when it comes to available office suites I feel very neglected. I started a thread over at the Xoom forum comparing some of the main features of three major (tablet optimized) office suites.
The official Asus Transformer website states that it will be shipped with the Polaris Suite. Has anyone tried it yet? I know it will be next to impossible to get the apk to run it on the Xoom so if anyone wants to add their experience on the Transformer? Here is the link to the PowerPoint presentation that I used to evaluate the compatibility.
Your help is really appreciated!
it doesn't work to bad.. everything displays apart from the line of symbol text and the the page numbers just show up as hash. The speed of the app is fine in fact is is almost instant.
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it doesn't work to bad.. everything displays apart from the line of symbol text and the the page numbers just show up as hash. The speed of the app is fine in fact is is almost instant.
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Would you mind taking a screenshot for me?
Screenshots:
http://db.tt/Ob5Memd
http://db.tt/GqUiZtH
Speed is very good
^ beat me to it!
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it doesn't work to bad.. everything displays apart from the line of symbol text and the the page numbers just show up as hash. The speed of the app is fine in fact is is almost instant.
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It has some functions that most other office apps don't have - insert table for example. Even better the table functionality is very feature rich meaning you can do things like merge cells.
I have had it crash on me, and when it did so, it lost all of the work I had done - it would be nice if they did a periodic save.
Speed in use is fine.
I'm comparing it to various paid for office apps I have had on the iPad, and it compares favourably so far.
A question is, is it better than Google docs?
I posted a comparison between (for now Word and PowerPoint) Office Suites in the Xoom forum. Bottom line is that none of the currently available apps should be considered perfect. Hopefully the competition coming up with all the Honeycomb tablets will spark a flood of well-developed apps.
I have found that the doc/xls files saved with polaris suite won't open with openoffice or libre office on my ubuntu 10.10 box, which is a shame, as I really like the functionality of it otherwise. In fact, I don't even think they opened with QuickOffice, which I installed next and, despite its more limited functionality, is reasonably good on my transformer!
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I have found that the doc/xls files saved with polaris suite won't open with openoffice or libre office on my ubuntu 10.10 box, which is a shame, as I really like the functionality of it otherwise. In fact, I don't even think they opened with QuickOffice, which I installed next and, despite its more limited functionality, is reasonably good on my transformer!
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I wonder if they open in Word. Such suite should have at least RTF. DOC/XLS are very bad choices especially since there are several very different versions of DOC/XLS formats out there.
Here's a youtube review of Polaris. This guy is awesome. Watch his reviews.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OGSfL6XjcN8
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Here's a youtube review of Polaris. This guy is awesome. Watch his reviews.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OGSfL6XjcN8
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I checked out his other videos and it made me want to test drive the Transformer so badly. Even my wife who leans towards iProducts was pretty impressed by its options!
Has anyone been able to get google docs integration work on on Polaris?
I can download a document from my google docs. However it will only save it locally and it won't upload it back to google docs. I also tried creating a new document and pushing it up to google docs and that also failed.
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Has anyone been able to get google docs integration work on on Polaris?
I can download a document from my google docs. However it will only save it locally and it won't upload it back to google docs. I also tried creating a new document and pushing it up to google docs and that also failed.
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If you have the Google Docs app installed, then within Polaris you can click-and-hold on a locally saved file, choose Send -> Docs and it will pass it to the Docs app for uploading.
But that just adds it to your Google docs, and doesn't overwrite and previous doc of the same name.
Damn I was really hoping for decent google docs support. I use google docs alot and not having read write acces is a pain. Does anyone know if Docs to go or quick office has read wirte google docs support and have tried on the xformer?
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Can you not use Google Docs via the web browser on the TF?
You can use the mobile docs site but it is very basic. The desktop site crashes the browser when I try to use it.
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lytnus said:
I have found that the doc/xls files saved with polaris suite won't open with openoffice or libre office on my ubuntu 10.10 box, which is a shame, as I really like the functionality of it otherwise.
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The way LibreOffice doesn't open my Polaris file is clearly an LO bug: it crashes trying to do a division by 0.
I'm not allowed to post a URL on this forum but I can tell you that it is bug 40686 in the freedesktop.org bugzilla.
Your best bet is to get quickoffice and doc2go. Between polaris, quickoffice, and doc2go, you should be able to do everything you want to do on-the-go.
This topic has long since evolved in my comparison thread (see sig)
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Your best bet is to get quickoffice and doc2go. Between polaris, quickoffice, and doc2go, you should be able to do everything you want to do on-the-go.
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I believe I've done my due diligence in trying to find this by searching. My goal is to eliminate as many textbooks as possible from my backpack, but there seem to be a number of arbitrary walls in ebooks. CourseSmart and Kindle both carry the book I need. CouseSmart doesn't allow offline reading, which I need, and Kindle doesn't sell that particular book to anything but their cloud and a kindle.
So I try to open up the kindle cloud reader and their website only supports firefox 6+, chrome 11+, safari 5+ or Safari ipad ios 4+.
Thus my question is, is there a way to get any of these browsers to play nice with my xoom in such a way to make amazon show me some love?Either that or a way to circumvent CourseSmart's offline issue, but SourseSmart texts are more expensive, at least for my accounting books this semester.
32GB wifi only running 3.2.1
Links not allowed for a noob like me or I'd save you a trip to google with a link or two. If there's a thread on this feel free to throw rocks and sticks at me, as long as I can get the link as well.
Why don't you just download the Kindle app?
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Why don't you just download the Kindle app?
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The book I need is specifically blocked from being purchased on the xoom with the kindle app.
Ah, I see. So you can read it from the Kindle Cloud Reader and not the Xoom? Very strange. What about on a smartphone?
I hate when publishers come up with these arbitrary rules.
Well, you're going to have to download a ton of browsers to the Xoom and see if one of them will let you load the cloud reader in desktop mode.
Feel your pain.
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Ah, I see. So you can read it from the Kindle Cloud Reader and not the Xoom? Very strange. What about on a smartphone?
I hate when publishers come up with these arbitrary rules.
Well, you're going to have to download a ton of browsers to the Xoom and see if one of them will let you load the cloud reader in desktop mode.
Feel your pain.
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Tried smartphone, it still tells me my browser is not supported.
I would imagine if I can get an accepted browser to run, then cloud reader would think I am on a PC or rather that it doesn't care. I kind of gave up on this thread after a day of no responses, I'm currently using google to see if I can make linux run on the xoom which would then let me install firefox or chrome.
Have you tried changing the user agent that the browser uses?
In honeycomb, you will need to browse to about:debug to enable the advanced settings and then change the user agent string in the advanced settings.
In ICS you can try the "Request Desktop Site" option from the menu.
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Have you tried changing the user agent that the browser uses?
In honeycomb, you will need to browse to about:debug to enable the advanced settings and then change the user agent string in the advanced settings.
In ICS you can try the "Request Desktop Site" option from the menu.
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That did it. I had tried this on firefox and dolphin but those didn't work. Not sure if I was doing it properly. I had read on the forums that dolphin was a better browser before I even got the xoom so I didn't use the default browser. It let me try as an ipad and a desktop using the wizard walk through, but didn't work. The website specifically mentioned chrome and firefox do I downloaded both of those with no success, but now I think they might work if I use debug. I can read my books now so I'll goof around more with other browsers on study breaks once school gets started.
Huge thanks. Between this semester and next fall this xoom might pay for itself in reduced textbook costs.
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That did it. I had tried this on firefox and dolphin but those didn't work. Not sure if I was doing it properly. I had read on the forums that dolphin was a better browser before I even got the xoom so I didn't use the default browser. It let me try as an ipad and a desktop using the wizard walk through, but didn't work. The website specifically mentioned chrome and firefox do I downloaded both of those with no success, but now I think they might work if I use debug. I can read my books now so I'll goof around more with other browsers on study breaks once school gets started.
Huge thanks. Between this semester and next fall this xoom might pay for itself in reduced textbook costs.
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Glad I could help.
(Sorry the for the pointless post, need to get this account to be able to post in the dev section)
teameos said:
Glad I could help.
(Sorry the for the pointless post, need to get this account to be able to post in the dev section)
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No problem, spam away. How'd you get more thanks than posts btw?
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No problem, spam away. How'd you get more thanks than posts btw?
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I thought that what happens when more than one person thank posts.
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I'm interested in knowing what the book is now...sparked my curiousity
ZonyX said:
I'm interested in knowing what the book is now...sparked my curiousity
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Advanced Accounting 9th edition
Shame
I found the 11th in pdf format
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Shame
I found the 11th in pdf format
Sent from 3D land
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Thanks for taking a look around, but those are different authors. Finding free textbooks in current use would be a neat trick though.
I thought you were wondering about the subject matter. The only way to make sure you have the right book, normally, is the ISBN because all the books at this level seem to have the same name.
The book is 9780078136627
Occasionally you can look it up by authors, name, and edition, but my google always gets clogged up with other books of the same edition or other books by the same author(s).
FYI, android office now has spell checker. This app is getting very very close to replacing msoffice. And it's only 6 bucks. Get it to support the dev.
How good is the spell checker? The gain I see over Polaris is being less (legally) tied to the tablet, give or take the corruption issues.
At least for me, my quality scale generally flows like this:
Google
Vi IMproved
Microsoft Word
Hunspell
aspell, MySpell, etc.
but is just based on experience over the past decade.
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To be honest Google Docs application doesn't really work for me - no layout, it looks like a notepad not an office application. :| And in browser even with USB keyboard it just doesn't work.
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To be honest Google Docs application doesn't really work for me - no layout, it looks like a notepad not an office application. :| And in browser even with USB keyboard it just doesn't work.
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I think he's talking about Androffice.
He says the app is 6 bucks, Google Docs is free.
Google Docs also sucks massively if you are using the mobile version instead of the desktop facing website. Android Office should be worth the cash,depending on how you feel about Polaris (which can access files on Google Docs and Box)
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What browser do you use and why?
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I keep switching between Boat, ICS+, Dolphin, Maxthon...
They all work and they all kind of suck too.
Maybe web browsing on android is just a pain in the butt.
It's the same on my wife's tablet...
Pick one...all the browsers freak out in varying degrees.
I realize this is a non-answer.
Good luck finding a smooth non crashing browser.
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I use the stock browser and it is pretty much faster after I install (Browser2ram) (( need root ))
I use boat that it's perfect and chrome only for Facebook full site.
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I've tried Chrome, Firefox Beta, Dolphin and ICS+ and went back to stock. As was previously said each one has its issues. Even on my HOX none of them works perfectly. When I set my CPU governor to Performance then the stock browser is as good if not better than the rest.
+1 for Boat - very fast, and very stable (I don't have *any* crashing issues with Boat). Still get the occasional web site that just doesn't work right, even with Boat, but it's the best I've found. Dolphin seems pretty good as well.
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Dolphin because of the Lastpass plugin. Can't live without Lastpass, but I am sure Dolphin as a browser isnt the best, I wish other browsers would add it.
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What browser do you use and why?
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I like ICS+. The quick controls are convenient, but the main reason i stick with it is when Google imported my hundreds of bookmarks into it, all of them were still organized into all the folders and subfolders i spent HOURS on reorganizing. All the other browsers i have tried so far, just dump them all in with no organization at all. Just 200 something bookmarks plopped at your feet.
FireFox seems to be getting better, too. It's out of beta stage now.
I'm using Chrome for syncing bookmarks / open tabs with my PC, but it can be done with FF as well now, I believe.
I like Dolphin. It had everything i need. Boat is great, but i keep going back to Dolphin.
I don't like apps spying on me, so I don't like these two, but we had a discussion on that already in the best apps sticky thread a while ago, and jtrosky will beat the hell out of me for spoiling browsing fun by saying this, so I need to keep quiet.
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I prefer Google Chrome, I just like the way it runs. Hasn't failed me yet!
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does firefox sync with your home PC favorites? tool bar favorites etc? is there an app that does this? browser app that is
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does firefox sync with your home PC favorites? tool bar favorites etc? is there an app that does this? browser app that is
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Firefox does have sync ability.
Chrome and Stock browser both sync to your desktop bookmarks.
Browsing on Infinity is one of the weakness and hope to be improved aspect. Some one in this thread mentioned possibility of all browser sucks on android, which is NOT true. I had different tablet and its browsing experience was superior to iPad 2 for its speed, stability.
Also there is this app https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.h.chromemarks&hl=en, which allows you to launch any browser using chrome's bookmark.
Opera Mobile
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Opera Mobile
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Everything looked rather tiny on the Infinity last time I checked.
Mibile Firefox
I like to:good::laugh: work with Firefox on my Asus Tf700T. It works great and fast
Actually, I got my Infinity in july and right now the web experience is the main drawback experience so far. The lag and crash of the launcher is far less annoying that the slowness and lag of the web browsing. I have tested nearly all browsers and none is giving me good experience :
- stock browser : miss some functionalities, slow and laggy
- chrome : my prefered as i'm sharing my bookmarks with my personal computer, work computer and iphone but too slow and laggy
- firefox : looks nice and is doing bookmarks sync (but firefox does not exist for my iPhone), still beta version that deals very badly with plugins. For example when a page needs a flash player then it will display an ugly inside-window with "click here to activate the plugin" and that inside-window prevent any fast web browsing.
- others (boat, dolphin, opera ...) : not impressed, all miss the sync of chrome bookmarks (needed to have my bookmarks sync on all my platforms)
My hope is that Jelly Bean/next version of chrome will improve the stability and swiftness of that browser as this is the only one that contains all the functionnalities i need.
hmm, I might wait for the asus vivo tab. I'm traveling before it gets released, so I'm gonna be pretty gutted not using it overseas
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.... I have tested nearly all browsers and none is giving me good experience....
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Agreed..., sadly.
Though, if NoScript finally becomes available for FF then this will be a prime reason for me to stick to FF (beta or not,
not that much difference these days).
Quote Giorgio Maone on NSA for FF mobile (v 14+): "By the end of the summer."
see noscript.net/nsa
How do you print a web page from the Chrome browser on the Asus Transformer Infinity TF700?
Can you also print or export a web page directly to a PDF? I need this, for example, when I've made an online purchase and want to keep the receipt. Can't use the screenshot functionality, as it doesn't always capture the whole web page (if larger than one screen).
My searches for help pages on Chrome have not really helped. The menu in Chrome on the TF700 seems limited, with no option to set printer defaults.
Can anyone help?
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How do you print a web page from the Chrome browser on the Asus Transformer Infinity TF700?
Can you also print or export a web page directly to a PDF? I need this, for example, when I've made an online purchase and want to keep the receipt. Can't use the screenshot functionality, as it doesn't always capture the whole web page (if larger than one screen).
My searches for help pages on Chrome have not really helped. The menu in Chrome on the TF700 seems limited, with no option to set printer defaults.
Can anyone help?
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One thing that was really over looked was printing capabilities in Android. You would think just hit a button and spew out your printer. Dealing with drivers is more of a job and time then it really is. You're better off taking a screen shot of what you want to print then emailing it to yourself. Now if you have the most common/popular printer around then it is a little easier.
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How do you print a web page from the Chrome browser on the Asus Transformer Infinity TF700?
Can you also print or export a web page directly to a PDF? I need this, for example, when I've made an online purchase and want to keep the receipt. Can't use the screenshot functionality, as it doesn't always capture the whole web page (if larger than one screen).
My searches for help pages on Chrome have not really helped. The menu in Chrome on the TF700 seems limited, with no option to set printer defaults.
Can anyone help?
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Google cloud print
http://www.google.com/cloudprint/learn/apps.html
You also have other options to print anything you want like pictures, pdf, word doc etc...you are going to need an app but works best depend on your printer model. Like I have HP printer and I am using HP eprint.
PrinterShare is the best app I have found. Works perfectly.
I've wondered this as well. I save a lot of webpages for offline use as I'm on the road a lot. (It's called research. Writers do it sometimes.) Usually print them off as PDF but I can't seem to find any option of the sort for Android. There's a 'save for offline reading' in Stock browser, but that is utterly useless when you want to back it up to your PC or USB drive...
Look up an app called pocket, formerly read it later
A few ways to print to pdf
Stock JB 4.1.1 brower, Chrome can't do it.
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There is a utility on the Play Store called "Web2PDF" that you can use to share to. Says it only works with Dolphin brower HD, but I have not found that to be the case. Works for me with any application that can share to other applications. This utility is very crytic and I choose the below methods over this method, but in a crunch it works.
*Firefox for Android can do it. No Add-in required. Menu>Tools>Save as PDF***:cyclops:
*Dolphine brower HD can do it. Need Web2PDF add-on.
*Market app Web Snapshots can do it. Provides functionality to stock Android brower.:good:
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