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For Windows, Mozilla have just released version 3.0.2 of FireFox, which seems faster than version 3.0.1 on my [B] rig's XP, but has anyone else noticed how uniquely different the Ubuntu version of FireFox is ? 
Now at version 3.0.3, it's unique capability is 'Print to PDF'.
When displaying an HTML web-page, like http://ubuntuguide.org/wiki/Ubuntu:Hardy select File, Print and then 'PDF' instead of your CUPS-installed printer and a PDF file of the web-pages is fairly promptly dumped in to a 'Home' folder.
If you then find that file and double-click it, it opens in Evince PDF reader, currently at version 2.22.2, in which you can merely browse on-screen, saving paper, or print odd and then even pages to create a double-sided reference. In the case of the Ubuntu Guide example, about 41 pages worth. 
I have found that this doesn't work well for all web-pages, but for enough to be very useful. 
So, anybody else noticed ? 
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| Must confess that I hadn't noticed. That is quite a handy little trick, thanks for the tip!
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There is an official plugin to make your Windows version do it as well if you want to, Bruce. It lives HERE, although I've never tried it personally.
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That's great - thank you Slipstreem
Edit PS - For the XP version of FireFox, its a commercial yet free add-on that achieves the same via more laborious transfer to their web-site as HTML before download return as a PDF file, with the activity invoking the promotion of other commercial, non-free tools.
So, very useful for occasional use in XP, but most of the time I'll use the 'in-built' capability in the Ubuntu version of FireFox.
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The easy fix in Windows is to install a PDF printer/driver. Then simply print the page to that "printer". There are loads available.
Here's an example - http://www.dopdf.com/
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The easy fix in Windows is to install a PDF printer/driver. Then simply print the page to that "printer". There are loads available.
Here's an example - http://www.dopdf.com/
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Indeed there is and the easiest and best method. I use CutePDF so I can use it in everything (like Opera and Office)
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Actually I also use CutePDF but I recommended dopdf as it does not need Ghostscript, so is an easier solution.
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Thanks guys, just tried 'dopdf' in my XP copy of FireFox 3.02 and it quite quickly produced a PDF file, so I'll now use that in XP, whilst mostly using the Firefox 3.03 version's in-built capability in Ubuntu 8.04.1
(Edit PS - where I now prefer Evince 2.22.2 to XP's Acrobat Reader 6.0)
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'doPDF'. That's excellent! Thanks very much for that. 
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