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[Solved - Firefox extension SingleFile converts the page to a .html file that can be accessed without login!] Any tricks to saving chapters in a digital, online-based textbook as a PDF? (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Print-to-PDF is locked down. There's a print option as part of the software, but it slaps my student email diagonally across every single page, which makes reading it kind of obnoxious.

I don't intend to distribute (which I'm assuming is why it's locked up so tight), but needing to log in and navigate to the text is getting cumbersome, so I'm hoping to just save a chapter at a time to my phone and whip that out to tackle my reading assignments.

Also hoping to preserve images, since a lot of the info is charts and such, so PDF seems like the best target, but open to any ideas.

...I suppose I could just suck it up and deal with their annoying software, but at this point I hate to admit defeat lol.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (5 children)

No luck. That extension only saves a single 'screen' worth as a PDF, not the entire webpage as it advertises. I'd guess this is more the fault of the textbook restrictions than any actual issue with the extension.

Tried a few similar ones, and they either did the same thing, or saved that print preview I mentioned earlier (so, effectively just a shortcut to print-to-pdf).

I may just be SOL.

This makes me want to seed a torrent of it or something if/when I find a working option, just out of spite. >_<

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (4 children)

What's the website? I may be able to look at it tomorrow. Is it school-specific or one of those generic online document viewers?

Try throwing NoScript at it? But that will probably just break the entire page.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (3 children)

https://pageburstls.elsevier.com

Not sure if that link will actually be useful - you'll need a login to actually get to a textbook.

Try throwing NoScript at it?

Unsure how to do that... I see extensions with that name - try those?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

https://noscript.net/

Some websites will fall back to a "simple" version when the javascript they prefer isn't allowed. it's good design. My guess is that these parasites will design their website without such accessibility principals and prevent you from using it except on their terms. But it's worth a shot.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Yea it just throws an error saying to enable javascript. It's sounding like piracy will be the best option, lol.

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