Reviews for Print Edit WE
Print Edit WE by DW-dev
Review by oldFox
Rated 3 out of 5
by oldFox, 7 aastat tagasiThe 'old' Print-Edit was for me one of the most useful and accomplished FF add-ons. Given the reviews here I have NOT (so ignore the 3 stars - just entered as a neutral rating because field is required) tried the WE version because it is obvious it has some significant problems but it is also equally obvious these problems stem not from the add-on developer but from FF itself, as the FF developers increasingly lock down FF into a sort of paranoid uber secure - well, what? FF used to be all about the ability to customize it to one's liking but that ability is all but gone. I'm seriously thinking about what other browser to use (WIndows) but the field is limited and unattractive: Chrome (bloatware), IE (thanks but no thanks), etc.
Which leaves FF. So isn't the thing that we should be berating FF for its regressive changes rather than having a go at Print Edit's developer, who is doing his best under trying circumstances not of his own making?
Oh, and by the way, any FF supporters out there who say the current FF is better and/or why would I not want a more secure FF: the answer is I want adequate security, not Fort Knox.
Edit: DW-dev: thanks for your response. Seems I can't add a response under yours so mine will have to go here, as an edit. The three stars remain because, as I said, the FFFs (roll your own on what the third F stands for) require an assessment so I went for average/neutral.
My 'review' was more about WE = less functionality and flexibility and applies particularly to valuable but complex add-ons like yours, hence saying it here.
A bit of background: I was trying to edit your code to see if I could get the Save PDF button to send the edited html stream to wkhtmtopdf, with a view to achieving the Holy Grail of saving an edited page with active embedded links (which wkhtmltopdf can do, at least for unedited pages). I know this has come up before, and your reply if I remember was that saving to PDF was a secondary function and just used an internal FF PDF routine to do the save. I then came up against the FF xpi validation/signing restrictions and decided life was too short, even though there is a way of disabling signing verification by using two short js config files. But doing that probably really does leave the doors open to all sorts of nasties.
I currently use a custom button to send the url of the page (so it's the whole page) to wkhtmltopdf and it outputs a tolerable or better pdf with active embedded links over 90% of the time. But it is always the whole page, so often there is unnecessary bloat. If Print-Edit could do the same thing with the edited html that would be truly awesome!
Which leaves FF. So isn't the thing that we should be berating FF for its regressive changes rather than having a go at Print Edit's developer, who is doing his best under trying circumstances not of his own making?
Oh, and by the way, any FF supporters out there who say the current FF is better and/or why would I not want a more secure FF: the answer is I want adequate security, not Fort Knox.
Edit: DW-dev: thanks for your response. Seems I can't add a response under yours so mine will have to go here, as an edit. The three stars remain because, as I said, the FFFs (roll your own on what the third F stands for) require an assessment so I went for average/neutral.
My 'review' was more about WE = less functionality and flexibility and applies particularly to valuable but complex add-ons like yours, hence saying it here.
A bit of background: I was trying to edit your code to see if I could get the Save PDF button to send the edited html stream to wkhtmtopdf, with a view to achieving the Holy Grail of saving an edited page with active embedded links (which wkhtmltopdf can do, at least for unedited pages). I know this has come up before, and your reply if I remember was that saving to PDF was a secondary function and just used an internal FF PDF routine to do the save. I then came up against the FF xpi validation/signing restrictions and decided life was too short, even though there is a way of disabling signing verification by using two short js config files. But doing that probably really does leave the doors open to all sorts of nasties.
I currently use a custom button to send the url of the page (so it's the whole page) to wkhtmltopdf and it outputs a tolerable or better pdf with active embedded links over 90% of the time. But it is always the whole page, so often there is unnecessary bloat. If Print-Edit could do the same thing with the edited html that would be truly awesome!
Developer response
posted 7 aastat tagasiA reasonable assessment without trying Print Edit WE !!
Looking at all of the reviews, the negative points raised were:
1. Two-stage initiation sequence. Option to skip preparation stage in Print Edit WE 20.0
2. Duplicating original tab may lose some information. Necessary for integrity.
3. Page Breaks shortcut key (#) not working. Fixed in Print Edit WE 20.0.
4. Preview button didn't work. Fixed with Firefox 56.
5. Save As PDF didn't work. Fixed with Firefox 56.
6. Fix Page Breaks command missing. Will be added in next version.
7. Cannot edit Mozilla Add-ons web pages. Mozilla restriction.
8. Permissions. The original Print Edit had greater permissions.
Points 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 & 6 have been fixed. Points 7 & 8 are facts of life.
Looking at all of the reviews, the negative points raised were:
1. Two-stage initiation sequence. Option to skip preparation stage in Print Edit WE 20.0
2. Duplicating original tab may lose some information. Necessary for integrity.
3. Page Breaks shortcut key (#) not working. Fixed in Print Edit WE 20.0.
4. Preview button didn't work. Fixed with Firefox 56.
5. Save As PDF didn't work. Fixed with Firefox 56.
6. Fix Page Breaks command missing. Will be added in next version.
7. Cannot edit Mozilla Add-ons web pages. Mozilla restriction.
8. Permissions. The original Print Edit had greater permissions.
Points 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 & 6 have been fixed. Points 7 & 8 are facts of life.
433 reviews
- Rated 3 out of 5by Heisenberg, 20 tundi tagasiWhile this is a very important add-on for my web / news archiving, I have encountered a great number of issues over the past few versions.
In this current version, I spend a lot of time refining the print layout only to have it stop responding, which requires me to reload the webpage and lose every tweak I spent time on.
In this and previous versions, some webpages randomly shift the edit boxes, making things like adjusting font size difficult, as the checkbox to activate the intended tweak is shifted up or down a few boxes.
I've noticed some webpages reload after a set amount of time, rendering the editing process precariously challenged by time limits, as it yields a blank white page during the editing process on such pages. It would be nice if PrintEdit could include configuration to suspend any running scripts or otherwise put the page in a static mode while editing.
Some edits don't make sense. How do I get my bulleted lists back? Changing the font size or margins and poof, bullets be gone.
Again, my use is for archiving purposes, particularly when webpages either get edited or are otherwise removed. Typically I don't need photo-exact reproduction, but I do need content-accurate archiving and ideally in a neat print-form.
Plenty of bugs, but seriously, it is one of my essentials. Please do keep up the good work. This review is NOT indended to push people away. It is simply a snapshot in time on what I'm experiencing with it. - Rated 4 out of 5by de_mihab, 14 päeva tagasi
- Rated 4 out of 5by GalacticPrez, 14 päeva tagasi
- Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 18353062, kuu aega tagasiLeider nicht zu gebrauchen, um nur Teile einer website zu drucken...
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 18294034, 2 kuud tagasi
- Rated 5 out of 5by pspvinyls10, 3 kuud tagasiDefinitely the BEST print editor for webpages! I saved so much paper and time using this extension.
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 18242114, 3 kuud tagasi
- Rated 5 out of 5by balta2ar, 4 kuud tagasi
- Rated 5 out of 5by shtormish, 4 kuud tagasi
- Rated 4 out of 5by Firefox user 18218893, 4 kuud tagasiBest addon that is capable of saving a page as a real (not rasterized) PDF with selectable text, working links and preserving layout as seen on screen. Removing one star because "Web style" is not working 100%. Some print vs screen media css is still messed in the generated PDF breaking some pages. I'll give full 5 starts when fixed.
The addon needs quite a lot of tinkering with "scale" option to have the page saved looking exactly as in the browser. Consider implementing some automatic formula for the scale option based on the window size and the page width so the exported PDF will look the same as on the screen.
Also consider adding an option to export the web into a single page HTML with automatically calculated PDF page height. It can be hacked manually tinkering with the page height but it requires a lot of manual trials and it could be automated. Then one could do something like a "pdf screenshot". - Rated 4 out of 5by Firefox user 18207990, 4 kuud tagasi
- Rated 5 out of 5by Ashwin, 4 kuud tagasi
- Rated 1 out of 5by okok, 4 kuud tagasithis is definition of useless. why this is even in recommendation.
- Rated 2 out of 5by Firefox user 18189269, 5 kuud tagasiSignificant parts of the webpage are not included, so in my case the extension isn't helpful.
- Rated 5 out of 5by Syafa Hadyan Rasendriya, 6 kuud tagasi
- Rated 5 out of 5by GerD, 7 kuud tagasia very excellent service at a problem with firefox inits
I use PrintEdit very often - it is super - Rated 5 out of 5by fg, 7 kuud tagasiHello! It's not perfect, but it's good, convenient, and in many ways irreplaceable.
Despite the negative reviews, this is the best of all! But today there was some kind of failure. The extension icon has faded and stopped working. Reinstalling did not change the situation.
It still doesn't work. Who knows how to fix it and what is the reason?
There is one more question. In the saved pdf document, this extension prescribes the path string of the document location.
This spoils the appearance of the document. Please tell me how to fix it. Сan't do this in the setting. - Rated 4 out of 5by Abouwassim, 7 kuud tagasi
- Rated 5 out of 5by zhang.stef, 8 kuud tagasi
- Rated 5 out of 5by Delmário Mercês, 9 kuud tagasi
- Rated 4 out of 5by ff201307, 10 kuud tagasiHow can I edit only selected content of the web page?
With very large contents, it is sometimes inconvenient to first delete more than, for example, 90% of the content and then print the rest.