Freeze Page to Make Reading Easy
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I was just on a site that had rolling ads on both sides of a narrow column of text. It was very hard to read the text when most of the screen is screaming for your attention. On these sites, I usually print the screen and the read from the screen print. However this method is annoying when I have to scroll down the page. Would it be possible to screen print the entire html page so that I can scroll or use the scroll wheel to move down the page as I read. I don't mind the ads as long as they are not moving.
Thanks
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@andrew_m Hello Andrew,
you might want to use the reading mode of Vivaldi (click on the text icon at the end of your address bar - see below, right before the bookmark icon). Unfortunately, it isn't available on all sites (I hope it is on the website you are referring to)
Otherwise, you could install an extension which blocks ads like uBlock Origin or other that can do the job. -
I support the "Freeze Page" idea. The purpose of the proposed feature is similar to the purpose of the Reader Mode, but unless the Reader Mode works on all websites, the "Freeze Page" functionality remains useful.
Since Vivaldi already has the nice screen capture capability, it would be quite easy to implement the "Freeze Page" feature, I would imagine. You just replace the current page with its screen capture!
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@Andrew_M said in Freeze Page to Make Reading Easy:
Would it be possible to screen print the entire html page so that I can scroll or use the scroll wheel to move down the page as I read.
You can use Vivaldi's capture full page feature (click the camera icon in the status bar, bottom right) to screenshot the whole page instead of only the part you can see.
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@Andrew_M It is very easy to do with capture page.
Windows Explorer will open with the captured image selected. Just drag it into the open tab. Use Back to return to viewing the HTML page.
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@Pesala said in Freeze Page to Make Reading Easy:
@Andrew_M It is very easy to do with capture page.
It would be even better if we could capture the page in PDF:
https://forum.vivaldi.net/topic/29670/capture-as-pdf
The links in the captured PNG or JPG aren't clickable.( @Pesala: I'm not contradicting you. I'm just trying to enhance this discussion. )
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The requested feature would be even more helpful today.
More and more webpages use more CPU. When I read some news articles on Vivaldi, Chrome, or Firefox, the CPU use shots up and the fan starts to roar.
It's not a fault of Vivaldi or Chrome or Firefox. It's a fault of the webpages, of the operating system, or both. But it's a reality which a mere user cannot change.
Therefore, this feature would be a very useful workaround.
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@ryofurue said in Freeze Page to Make Reading Easy:
It would be even better if we could capture the page in PDF:
You can print to PDF.
@Ornorm said in Freeze Page to Make Reading Easy:
Unfortunately, it isn't available on all sites (I hope it is on the website you are referring to)
I thought on the desktop you could always use the keyboard shortcuts or mouse gesture associated with the reader view action. But there's a flag I use on Android that makes reader view available on all pages, regardless of whether the page itself enables it.
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Would be better not to have ads?
Use Ublock Origin for the ads and also the element picker to delete others things that bother the reading.
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And if you add a little of CSS you can go from this:
To this:
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@barbudo2005 you might like the Stylus extension. It makes it very easy to maintain custom css for page content. If, instead of hardcoding values for colors & fonts, you abstract them into variables, then you can use the popup to modify the theme on the fly. It's also very easy to have styles apply only to certain sites, and with the ability to download user styles that have been uploaded while visiting a site, it's easy to get a framework that already identifies all the necessary selectors for that site.
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@BoneTone I prefer to write my own, because I like minimalist styles: only text to read. (like Reader Mode)
I use this code for reading in all pages:
{font-size: 36px !important; font-family: Lato, FontAwesome, IcoMoon, Flaticon, Dashicons, themify, Genericons, Glyphicons Halflings !important; font-style: normal !important; font-weight: 400 !important; text-align: justify !important; line-height: 1.6 !important; min-width: auto; max-width: 1060px !important; margin-right: auto !important; margin-left: auto !important; border-right: 0px!important; border-left: 0px !important; padding-left: 8px; padding-right: 8px; padding-bottom: 0px !important; padding-top: 0px !important;}
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@BoneTone said in Freeze Page to Make Reading Easy:
You can print to PDF.
Yes. Therefore, the requested feature could be implemented using that capability. But,
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Currently it's too tedious: You print the page as PDF, go to the finder (or file explorer), and open the PDF file to view the page. It would be nice if the printing happened behind the scene and the printed result were automatically loaded onto Vivaldi.
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The print-to-PDF capability is designed for printing on A4 paper or letter paper. The layout is awkward. To implement the requested feature, the generated PDF would need to mimic what is displayed on the computer screen.
I thought on the desktop you could always use the keyboard shortcuts or mouse gesture
That is useful information. Thank you!
But there are pages even that doesn't work. For example, I can't activate the Reader Mode on this page:
Can you? This one consume a lot of CPU and I don't want to stay on the top page of this site for more than a minute. (Each news article on this site seems to be Reader-Mode ready.)
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@ryofurue said in Freeze Page to Make Reading Easy:
- Currently it's too tedious: You print the page as PDF, go to the finder (or file explorer), and open the PDF file to view the page. It would be nice if the printing happened behind the scene and the printed result were automatically loaded onto Vivaldi.
When I print to PDF, the page automatically opens in my default PDF viewer.
- The print-to-PDF capability is designed for printing on A4 paper or letter paper. The layout is awkward. To implement the requested feature, the generated PDF would need to mimic what is displayed on the computer screen.
This is just your settings. Choose whatever paper size you want, or create your own.
But there are pages even that doesn't work. For example, I can't activate the Reader Mode on this page:
Can you?
Yes. You can also invoke the reader view using the page actions, but my keyboard shortcut works fine on this page.
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Thank you for your request. As it has received few votes over 4 years, it is now going to be archived.
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