Email a web page as a PDF, or send it to yourself
The extension's new Send button gets a clean PDF of the page to a friend, to your own inbox, or into your device's share menu, without downloading anything first.
You found an article someone else needs to read. A link works until it hits a paywall, moves, or drowns in ads. A PDF is better, but that means saving it, finding the file, opening your email and attaching it. That's a lot of steps for one article.
So the PrintFriendly extension now has a Send button in PrintFriendly View. It lets you email a web page as a PDF, or hand it off somewhere else, right from the page.
Three ways to send
Click Send and pick one:
- Share makes the PDF and opens your device's own share menu with the file attached. Where it can go depends on your device and apps, like Mail, Messages or AirDrop on a Mac. You're sending the PDF itself, not a link.
- Email me sends the PDF to your own inbox in one click, and the extension tells you when it's sent. Handy for reading later, or for getting an article onto your phone.
- Email someone opens a short form for up to three addresses and an optional note. They get an email with your note, the article's title, a short preview, a link to the original page, and the PDF attached.
The two email options need you signed in to a free PrintFriendly account.
They get the cleaned-up version
It's the same PDF the PDF button makes. If you clicked away ads, images or paragraphs before sending, they're gone from what lands in the other person's inbox too. If you just want the file on your own computer, here's how to save a webpage as a PDF.
Where you'll see it
Send shows up in Chrome and Edge on Windows, Mac and ChromeOS. In Firefox and in Chrome on Linux, the button stays Email. The email still carries the PDF there, and the form has a link to send it to yourself.
Reading on a Kindle instead? You can send a web page to your Kindle from the menu next to PDF.
