How To Get Consistent PDF Web Clipping Files?

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Looks like this clipping method is based on the browser window width so the resulting file layout varies with the same web resource. Is there a way to make the output consistent?

From Safari I noticed Print to PDF is more consistent that Export as PDF.

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Do you clip single page PDFs?

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Yes.

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I see: one page == export; paginated == print.

Can’t decide if I prefer similar to print or web page. If I did want to make one page a consistent width, what’s the best way? Seems like this would be a nice option to bake into the DEVONthink web clipper.

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One possibility is to a use a bookmarklet (see DEVONtechnologies | Handbooks and Extras) and to modify it slightly so that it doesn’t use the current width of the window but a static width instead, e.g.

javascript:window.location='x-devonthink://clip?title='+encodeURIComponent(document.title)+'&location='+encodeURIComponent(window.location)+'&referrer='+encodeURIComponent(document.referrer)+'&width=1024&source='+encodeURIComponent(document.documentElement.outerHTML)+'&text='+encodeURIComponent(getSelection());
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Thanks @cgrunenberg.

Leaning towards single page PDF. Would be great to get this setting as part of the clipper so don’t need the bookmark bar open for one item.

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You could assign a shortcut to it via System Preferences. Then there’s no need for the bookmark bar anymore.