[Solved - Firefox extension SingleFile converts the page to a .html file that can be accessed without login!] Any tricks to saving chapters in a digital, online-based textbook as a PDF? (lemmy.world)

submitted 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) by Sterile_Technique@lemmy.world to c/techsupport@lemmy.world

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Print-to-PDF is locked down. There's a print option as part of the software, but it slaps my student email diagonally across every single page, which makes reading it kind of obnoxious.

I don't intend to distribute (which I'm assuming is why it's locked up so tight), but needing to log in and navigate to the text is getting cumbersome, so I'm hoping to just save a chapter at a time to my phone and whip that out to tackle my reading assignments.

Also hoping to preserve images, since a lot of the info is charts and such, so PDF seems like the best target, but open to any ideas.

...I suppose I could just suck it up and deal with their annoying software, but at this point I hate to admit defeat lol.

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[-] linuxPIPEpower@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 7 months ago

anything that is on your computer, you must be able to save.

Does Ctrl-S (File > Save) work? (unlikely). Can you select all and copy/paste?
Try the browser extension SingleFile https://github.com/gildas-lormeau/SingleFile
Since you already have your "license", find a PDF backup online. https://annas-archive.org, PDFdrive.com, libgen (websearch for current URL), sci-hub (same), archive.org (need DeDRM from github to download adobe ebooks permenently)
as someone else suggested, ask some pirates: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/
Maybe it would be easier to remove the email address from the background. How to do that depends on what sort of fuckery is going on in the PDF and how nerdy you are. Can you open it in any editing software?