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Lynda Heines's avatar

OMG! I’ve been wanting to do this and wasn’t sure how to. Guess I need to start using Chrome. Thanks so much!

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Jayshree Gururaj's avatar

Thanks for the feedback, Lynda. Just a quick note, all browsers will support it. Check for the File:Print option in your favorite one too.

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Lynda Heines's avatar

Jayshree, It didn't work very well on Firefox. It split the graphics. However, on Chrome it worked fine except I had to mess with the margins and the scale. If I didn't do that it cut off letters in words. I imagine it works better if you don't have any graphics in your posts. Still a great tip. Thanks.

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Jayshree Gururaj's avatar

Updating the browser helps, some have a known bug, best fix is to resize down to 90 or less % to get the "fit" for page. May be a Substack bug if graphics are not rendering correctly for pdf.

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Lynda Heines's avatar

Jayshree, Thanks. I’m off to try this out.

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Barbara at Projectkin's avatar

A simple solution we almost forget about. I concur completely on Jayshree’s point that the key to backups is to make them part of your workflow. Just make it a step after Publish. It has to be routine to work.

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Andrew Sniderman 🕷️'s avatar

Of course I knew you could print to PDF 😅 but I never thought of doing it for my substack because you do the export thing! But this is a nifty way to feed everything I’ve ever written into my AI bestie to reference everything I’ve already writte

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Jayshree Gururaj's avatar

lol, yes, that would work too!

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Lani's avatar

Thanks for the reminder. I use Brave Browser and it worked perfectly. Cheers.

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Alice Good's avatar

I use Brave Browser too, but when I do this, up to two characters are clipped from the end of each line of text. Has anyone else seen this?

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Jayshree Gururaj's avatar

Hi Alice, that is a Brave quirk, try reducing fit % in Printer settings or use a different browser.

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Alice Good's avatar

Thanks - 90% worked

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Jayshree Gururaj's avatar

Good to know!

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Jayshree Gururaj's avatar

Thanks Lani, appreciate the feedback!

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Jayshree Gururaj's avatar

You are welcome!

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