Firebug Good for More than Debugging 2008 December 9
Today I wanted a PDF “print out” of an article I co-wrote for the Code4Lib Journal to put in a repository I am setting up for Binghamton University Libraries. While using the print to file function works great on Ubuntu, there was one problem. I didn’t want the comments in the print out. This is where Firebug came to the rescue. At Jonathan Brinley‘s suggestion I installed the Firebug extension. I opened up the page I wanted to print and using the HTML view of Firebug, all I had to do was delete the <div> element for the comments, and hit print. I ended up with a nice PDF of the article for my repository.
Firebug is a good tool for that, if a little overkill. You might also want to look at more point-and-click options like Aardvark and Platypus.
Peter, thanks for the suggestions. I’ll take a look at them.