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In somes cases, e.g. a site that's gone to…",{"id":56,"by":57,"text":58},"16304524","skygazer","I've had co-workers share printed articles with me, perhaps because they think I'm more likely to read them than an emailed link. It would have been nicer to read them…",{"value":60,"source":61,"evidence":62},"People who want to print or read web articles on paper","inferred",[63,67],{"id":64,"by":65,"text":66},"16303004","iamben","Pretty decent idea - I'd love to see the stats on how many people print things! About ~10 years ago the agency I worked at made sure every site had a print friendly style sheet…",{"id":56,"by":57,"text":58},{"value":69,"source":50,"evidence":70},"Produce more readable printed article output than site print views",[71],{"id":53,"by":11,"text":54},[73,79],{"value":74,"source":50,"evidence":75},"Full-Text RSS with Readability extraction",[76],{"id":77,"by":11,"text":78},"16302624","Can be broken down to roughly these steps: 1. The tool for extracting article content is Full-Text RSS[0]. It relies on arc90's original (open source) article detection…",{"value":80,"source":50,"evidence":81},"Chromium headless API for PDF generation",[82],{"id":77,"by":11,"text":78},"unknown","launched","team",{"praise":87,"objections":100,"requests":126,"questions":148,"alternatives":159},[88],{"value":89,"source":90,"evidence":91},"Useful tool, reliable uptime","commenter",[92,96],{"id":93,"by":94,"text":95},"16303197","tylerdiaz","I'd like to add that I use tools from fivefilters.org daily. (Mostly Push to Kindle) If the authors are on this thread, thank you so much for making these tools free to use and…",{"id":97,"by":98,"text":99},"16302671","roadbeats","cool stuff! I tried it in my blog and the result was excellent.",[101,112,119],{"value":102,"source":90,"evidence":103},"Multi-column output and images not yet supported",[104,108],{"id":105,"by":106,"text":107},"16302791","gravypod","Does this support images? I tried to convert Ernest P. Chan's blog [0] into a pdf using this and the results were not well formatted. [0] - http:\u002F\u002Fepchan.blogspot.com\u002F",{"id":109,"by":110,"text":111},"16302788","jclos","This would be insanely more useful if it could display math correctly. For example, most of the math in https:\u002F\u002Fcolah.github.io\u002Fposts\u002F2014-03-NN-Manifolds-Topology only shows the…",{"value":113,"source":90,"evidence":114},"Unclear need given built-in print to PDF",[115],{"id":116,"by":117,"text":118},"16302575","stephenr","I dont really get the use-case for this. macOS has had print to pdf for any app since its inception, iOS has had it for at least the last couple of versions, surely Windows and…",{"value":120,"source":90,"evidence":121},"Possible copyright issues with copying article content",[122],{"id":123,"by":124,"text":125},"16305176","pbhjpbhj","Step two seems to be almost certainly copyright infringement in the UK, not sure about USA exactly but as you take money and then copy the content it seems likely to breech the…",[127,134,141],{"value":128,"source":90,"evidence":129},"Public API for URL to PDF",[130],{"id":131,"by":132,"text":133},"16302501","app4soft","Hope it has open API, for something like when request URL it will immediatly return PDF for download ``` http:\u002F\u002Fpdf.fivefilters.org\u002Fsimple-print\u002F#http:\u002F\u002Fexample.com ``` Now I use…",{"value":135,"source":90,"evidence":136},"Include original article URL",[137],{"id":138,"by":139,"text":140},"16304311","stewbrew","The original URL should be included somewhere. That said, I don't quite understand the advantage of this solution versus a plain article view (e.g. firefox's built-in article…",{"value":142,"source":90,"evidence":143},"EPUB output",[144],{"id":145,"by":146,"text":147},"16303442","sfifs","Could there be a way to print to EPub? PDF is uniquely bad for mobile readability but EPub solves for that",[149,155],{"value":150,"source":90,"evidence":151},"How the content extraction works",[152],{"id":153,"by":98,"text":154},"16302568","Looks very cool! Could you explain the tech that you developed ? 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