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Hello

I have already built a solution using web recorder which takes me to a specific webpage. We need to print to PDF the webpage.

On the page there is a Print button which does this:

javascript&colon;window.print()

The problem is the web recorder does not record anything I do within the standard Chrome print dialog box (e.g. selecting the destination as 'Save as PDF', or actually clicking the blue 'Save' button.

I do not want to screenshot the webpage for formatting reasons.

Also, I would need some advice as to how to handle the actual PDF i.e once the save button is clicked, how to programmatically choose a file name and folder to save it.

I do not mind if the solution is to use another browser (currently using Chrome).

Thank you

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great1 10 on at

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Hello everyone.

any help with this project would be much appreciated!

many thanks in advance

great1

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Dudeonyx 2 on at

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Switch to the Desktop recorder after you get to the print dialog.

The print dialog isn't a webpage so the Web recorder won't work on it

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By the moment I use this option with Chrome "C:\Program Files (x86)\Google\Chrome\Application\chrome.exe" --kiosk-printing for resolve the problem, the flow is working.

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1. 'Launch new Edge' with the page you want
2. 'Display select folder dialog' - select folder to save. %SelectedFolder% as variable produced
3. 'Display input dialog' - define file name to save. Define %File% as variable produced
4. 'Set variable' %FileName% = %SelectedFolder%\%File%
5. 'Get window', foreground window
6. 'Focus window', by instance = %AutomationWindow%
7. 'Send keys' {LControlKey}({P})
From here, use Desktop Recorder to get UI elements:
8. Select Save as PDF and click button 'Save'
9. In the 'Save as' window, select 'Name' field and populate it with %FileName%
10. Click 'Save'

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Thanks a lot, work in Chrome too.

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@Anonymous / @Anonymous: I'm always getting the error: "Failed to press button (button wasn't found)" in my Action 10. Are you able to provide a step by step screencapture of how you were able to get it to work?

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1) I would use {LControlKey}(p) - Send Keys can read “P” as Shift+p.
2). I don’t think I have tried print to pdf and then had a save button, it’s usually a print button. If there is a save button, try send keys for control + s.

Hope this helps.

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VJR 7,635 on at

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Hi @OXDevUser

- After pressing Ctrl P
- Give a wait stage for the print dialog to open
- Then sendkeys for Enter
This will hit the save button.

Here it is assumed that you already have set the destination to "Save as Pdf"

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I know I'm late to the party but I just had this issue too. What I did was to select Adobe DC as my default viewer to .png. So I save webpage and it saves as png but when I open it, BOOM! PDF

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