I was looking for a Meta heading but did not find one. Site Feedback did not seem like the right place for this.
Is there a way to somehow save all postings within a Topic discussion as a single contiguous PDF on my Desktop drive?
Is there an alternate … recommended … method for doing that?
If not, is there any remote possibility that the Forum would consider implementing such a capability/feature?
Thank you in advance for your consideration.
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What I’ve Tried
I have both
Print Friendly & PDF, and
PDF Mage
and neither can do what I would like to do.
Also, if I try to select the text from start to finish of a discussion, the Browser/OS can’t seem to capture the entirety of the discussion as a single content for PDF formatting using the built-in Print option, providing only a subset of the information.
Recommended method: the built-in “Print topic” view
Discourse renders the entire topic server-side into a dedicated print view, which you can convert to a single, contiguous PDF.
Open the topic and press Ctrl+P (Windows/Linux) or ⌘+P (macOS)
This opens a pre-rendered print window
In the print dialog, choose “Save as PDF” as the destination and save it to your Desktop
You can also trigger the same view directly by appending /print to the topic URL, e.g. https://your-forum.com/t/your-topic-slug/123/print.
Tip: Using the keyboard shortcut / /print route is important — if you just use your browser’s File → Print menu, you’d need to scroll from the first post to the last so all posts load into view. The /print route handles that for you.
I have not tried this so your feedback is important.
Until now, that is probably the single most useful piece of info I have been offered on this site!
Since I’m not a “keyboard-sequence” enthusiast, it never crossed my mind to try that, even though the CtlP is as ancient an sequence as the existence of MS-DOS!
