Get a pdf as a choice in print area for mac

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I found two programs that let you capture an entire Web page as it appears in your browser: the free Webpage Screenshot extension for Chrome lets you save a page as an editable image file, while the $20 FastStone Capture program (30-day free trial for Windows only) gives you more screen-grabbing and -editing options than you can shake a mouse at. I have Acrobat but can't figure out how to save a two-page article so it either fits on one page or as it is online.

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This happens with any page I try to save or print. When I try File > Print > PDF, the whole page looks like a mess: the fonts are different and the article is split in half. I'm a journalism student and need to provide some of the articles I've written online as PDFs. A reader contacted me recently about a problem she was having when she tried to convert an online article to a tear sheet: Unfortunately, none of these approaches meets everyone's page-saving needs. Another is to use the Chrome browser's Print > PDF > Save as PDF option. The simplest of those methods is to press the Print Screen key (or Alt+Print Screen) in Windows, or either Command+Shift+3 or Command+Shift+4 on a Mac. In a post from September 2011 I described five ways to save a Web page. If you need to save an entire Web page, you've got options.