When I try this I get a one page document to print. I have seen this before - the Reader view just shows one page. That’s strange and seems like a Reader bug. I never used to have these problems and I think Safari and Reader have changed. (Though, as I have mentioned, Chrome also has these problems. So maybe people are constructing web pages differently now.)
I’ve used print friendly on other “difficult to print” pages. The Safari extension allows you to delete blocks from the web page but there is no undo if you click the wrong area,
Hmm. Some safari webpages DO give only one but in my experience, rarely. Reader usually gives me the whole manuscript. Always learning. Thank you for the Print Friendly tip. Best, Patrick
Plop: I use that all the time. But, need help as going to FILE then SHARE gives me Messages and a few other things but NOT EMAIL as an option.
Any ideas are appreciated. Best, Patrick
Interesting.
I am able to use email, among other selections but when I select More, I get under System Preferences, “Could not load Extensions”, even when I manually select the Extensions item.
Mid 2012 Retina MacBook Pro running 10.15.7
Yeah, I know…
Yes I have tried activating “Show Reader” in the File menu. But, as I have noted, it generally results in a document missing images or often, just shows one page (of a multipage document). Reader used to show up automatically for web sites where it could be used; that stopped a couple of OS updates ago.
David,
I have made a quick test : copy two paragraphs and pictures in the middle of the text and paste in LibreOffice.
Thé result was rather good.
Of course without the header.
I’ve had this problem where the email option disappears under the Shared menu from time to time. It’s apparently a known bug/problem. Years ago I found a tip online to run the following command in Terminal and it fixes it. I only have to run once a year or so.
Don’t know if this would help in this case, but what works for me on Firefox is to copy the part of the complex web page by selecting a point at the top and scrolling down to select what I want, then copy it. This lets you select only one column on the web page, with otherwise would be overprinted by other columns. I paste the resulting document and paste it into Nisus Writer, which has RTF as its native file format, which gives me a reasonable simulation of the web page, with graphics. I just tried with Word 2019 and it works if I save it as a .docx file.
SiteSucker (on the App Store) has an option to “suck” a whole website to PDF. Depending on the size and organization of the site the results may be more or less satisfactory. It has a number of options to tweak the output, whether to follow offsite links, how deep into the hierarchy to go, “pagesize,” max filesize, etc. Your mileage may very depending on your patience at tweaking.