Save As PDF File Lacking In Brave

For years I’ve been using Opera as my default browser until I discovered Brave. In Opera when you click on menu and select page there are four options.

Full screen
Print
Save as
Save as PDF

When I right click on a webpage in Brave there are only two options

Save as
Print

Which means when I want to save a page as a PDF file, I have to highlight the address bar in Brave and then copy it, nip over to Opera paste the website address and then save the page as a PDF file.

Can the developers, please find some way of adding a Save as PDF file option to the browser.

Thanks

Ctrl-P (Print) then select “Save to PDF” or “Microsoft print to PDF” in the first menu. Done.

Thanks, I’d forgotten about that option in print.

However, when using this option compared to the option in Opera. When saving a webpage in Opera as a PDF file you see the webpage as you would see it in your browser.

In Brave when using CTRL + print option the background of the page is white, when in fact, it should be blue.

I would stil prefer to use Opera to save PDF files.

Make sure you check “Print background graphics”, although printing a blue background doesn’t sound like a great idea in terms of cartridge/toner usage or readability.

I did as you suggested . The background was in the same colour as it is on the webpage and the text was readable. However, there is what looks to be a white margin on both left and right side.

Furthermore a single webpage has been split into three pages, with the bottom of the webpage now becoming the top of page two.

I compared this with Opera which gave a single page and no white margins as it is seen on the website. I hate having to use two browsers. I like Brave, it has everything I want, apart from one thing and that is to save PDF files the way I save them in Opera.

@Murray-Campbell,
It’s unlikely that we will add this functionally into the browser any time soon. I would highly recommend downloading an extension that can do this work for you (there are several). PDF Mage, for example, should meet your needs:

Also, check out this free online tool: https://www.printwhatyoulike.com
You can remove the stuff you don’t need and then print the page (or save it as PDF).

@Mattches

Thanks for that, just tried it, it works fine.

Issue solved.

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@Murray-Campbell,
Very glad to hear that. I’ve passed this information onto the team anyway to let them know that there is interest in the feature.

Thank you.