Hey Dave! Running Windows 10 and Google Chrome and connect to the Internet via AOL: How do I email an article on a web page to someone else?
Since it’s so super easy to email someone a URL (copy from the address bar, paste into an email message) I’ll assume that you’re talking about literally emailing someone the contents of a specific Web page so that they can read the article without having to actually go to the site themselves. That’s surprisingly tricky to do because even the Google Chrome extensions available seem to be focused on making it easier to mail the URL not the page itself.
Fortunately there’s a trick you can use that creates a new document on your computer in PDF format that contains the actual content of the page in question, and it’s all related to the print feature in Chrome.
The trick is to know that when you request a printout, you can actually redirect the print job directly to a PDF file!
To start, here’s the Bing News home page. Pretty typical news, photos, and appearance:
Now you could share the screen capture if you want to use the Snipping tool that’s included with Win10, but instead, let’s create that PDF so that we also have the content that’s not current displayed in the window.
You print by choosing the Print… option from the main menu, which is accessible from the three-horizontal-lines button on the top right:
Choose “Print…” from this Chrome menu and you’ll have a nice preview of what’d be sent to the printer:
Very attractive, and you can see that there’s a lot more news than what’s shown in the main Chrome window!
But we don’t want to print it, so click on the link on the lower left “Print using system dialog…“.
That pops up yet another print window, but a smaller one:
Look closely at the above and notice which option I’ve chosen as the output printer: “Microsoft Print to PDF“.
That’s really the secret. Now click on the “Print” button to proceed and a standard file selection window pops up:
Give your Web page a mnemonic name like “bing-news”, it’ll automatically append “.pdf” to the filename, click “Save” and you’re done. It’ll save the entire page as a PDF and now you can open it in a program like Adobe Reader to double check or simply email someone and add it as an attachment. Even in Google Mail!
So it’s not the fastest and easiest, it’s not a single click feature, but it’s a really good way to send a Web page to someone else in a form that they’ll be able to read directly without having to click on links, worry about the connection speed, etc.
simple steps to making sure i can email an article from a specific page to my inbox. what settings do i need to check to allow my personal desktop computer to do this??
This method does not capture the entire webpage, only grabs the current screen. Is there a method that actually captures the entire webpage?
To capture the entire page, even the portion that’s not on the display, is a bit more involved. You can try a “save as…” and choosing an output format like PDF, but generally I’ve seen people use third party apps for this task.
SAVING OR PRINTING THE OPEN WEB PAGE AS PDF EITHER IN CHROME OR EXPLORER DOES NOT EQUAL TO SENDING A WEB PAGE WHOLE CONTENTS, AS IN A PRINT / PDF FILE THE LINKS EMBEDDED IN THE WEB PAGE ARE ABSENT AND CLICKING ON THOSE LINKED-WORDS DO NOT WORK.
if one is using Google’s Chrome browser, it offers “Save as PDF” as a print destination when selecting “Print…” from the Chrome menu or pressing Cntl-P. easiest way to do generate a PDF.
the “Microsoft Print to PDF“ printer is useful when printing from other applications.
Both options are available from Chrome. Is there any actual difference in the result?
I use Clipular.com. Pretty good, but it leaves some things to be desired.. Or put in “capture webpage” in your browser, and look through those websites. Some of those will let you email the pictures you took. Takes a little work, to find just the right website for your needs.
I am using an extension called printfriendly for web2pdf.