How to print (or save to PDF) entire Google AI response

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If you visit the Google search page, and enter the following query:

How to structure data for quadratic equations in a matrix in order to solve for all the variables using linear programming methods for 3D spatial optimization of placement resulting in segment length equivalence as identified.

Google AI will provide a response with Math expressions displayed in the browser.

If you either

  • attempt CtlP , or
  • select text then righ-click to “print selection”

the result never captures the proper display of the math equations.

Does anyone know how to properly capture as PDF or Print that Google AI response?

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I’m on Firefox right now, not on Chrome, but this Ctrl+P shortcut is integrated in all (or most) modern browsers.

Check if, when you press Ctr+P, there is a line at the bottom that says “More options” or something like that, where you can choose page size and all that, there should be a “Print backgrounds” feature, try that one if it’s there.

Another possibility is to try “Print using the system dialog”, which most of the times allows to save the file as pdf, to see if it renders the output properly.

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Thank you for responding, Claudio.

Just to confirm, are you able to

  • correctly view the math expressions using Ctl-P ?
  • save as PDF with the math expressions captured and displayed in the PDF?

I am using Firefox as well. Which version are you using?


Good suggestion, but it made no difference on presentation in preview or capture into PDF. :frowning:

That was the first thing I tried, on this and previous occasions, and that also failed to make the math printable.


If I “view source” on a one-line math expression, I get the following “highlighted text”:

<img aria-hidden="true" data-xpm-latex="(x_{i}-x_{j})^{2}+(y_{i}-y_{j})^{2}+(z_{i}-z_{j})^{2}=L^{2}" draggable="false" role="presentation" src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAP///wAAACH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAICRAEAOw==" style="pointer-events: none; position: absolute; height: 100%; width: 100%; left: 0; top: 0;" data-imglogged="true">

which renders out as

Screenshot at 2026-10-02 08-20-26

If I interpret that correctly, the source indicates a call to Latex.

The full line displayed by the browser is:

<div data-xpm-copy-root="" data-xpm-math-type="block" style="position: relative; direction: ltr;display: inline-flex; max-width: 100%; overflow-x: auto; vertical-align: -0.385em;" tabindex="0"><img aria-hidden="true" data-xpm-latex="(x_{i}-x_{j})^{2}+(y_{i}-y_{j})^{2}+(z_{i}-z_{j})^{2}=L^{2}" draggable="false" role="presentation" src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAP///wAAACH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAICRAEAOw==" style="pointer-events: none; position: absolute; height: 100%; width: 100%; left: 0; top: 0;" data-imglogged="true"><div style="display: block; inset: 0; opacity: 0.001; overflow: hidden; position: absolute; user-select: none;"><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML"><semantics><mrow><mo>(</mo><msub><mi>x</mi><mi>i</mi></msub><mo>−</mo><msub><mi>x</mi><mi>j</mi></msub><msup><mo>)</mo><mn>2</mn></msup><mo>+</mo><mo>(</mo><msub><mi>y</mi><mi>i</mi></msub><mo>−</mo><msub><mi>y</mi><mi>j</mi></msub><msup><mo>)</mo><mn>2</mn></msup><mo>+</mo><mo>(</mo><msub><mi>z</mi><mi>i</mi></msub><mo>−</mo><msub><mi>z</mi><mi>j</mi></msub><msup><mo>)</mo><mn>2</mn></msup><mo>=</mo><msup><mi>L</mi><mn>2</mn></msup></mrow><annotation encoding="text/plain">open paren x sub i minus x sub j close paren squared plus open paren y sub i minus y sub j close paren squared plus open paren z sub i minus z sub j close paren squared equals cap L squared</annotation></semantics></math></div><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" aria-hidden="true" direction="ltr" width="16.1993em" height="1.27em" viewBox="0 -0.885 16.1993 1.27" style="vertical-align: -0.385em; overflow: visible; user-select: none;"><text fill="#E6E8F0" style="font-family: STIXTwoMath-Regular; font-size: 1px" transform="translate(0,0)">(</text><text fill="#E6E8F0" style="font-family: STIXTwoMath-Regular; font-size: 1px" transform="translate(0.357,0)">𝑥</text><text fill="#E6E8F0" style="font-family: STIXTwoMath-Regular; font-size: 0.7px" transform="translate(0.916,0.21)">𝑖</text><text fill="#E6E8F0" style="font-family: STIXTwoMath-Regular; font-size: 1px" transform="translate(1.37,0)">−</text><text fill="#E6E8F0" style="font-family: STIXTwoMath-Regular; font-size: 1px" transform="translate(2.3122,0)">𝑥</text><text fill="#E6E8F0" style="font-family: STIXTwoMath-Regular; font-size: 0.7px" transform="translate(2.8712,0.21)">𝑗</text><text fill="#E6E8F0" style="font-family: STIXTwoMath-Regular; font-size: 1px" transform="translate(3.2129,0)">)</text><text fill="#E6E8F0" style="font-family: STIXTwoMath-Regular; font-size: 0.7px" transform="translate(3.5699,-0.36)">2</text><text fill="#E6E8F0" style="font-family: STIXTwoMath-Regular; font-size: 1px" transform="translate(4.1787,0)">+</text><text fill="#E6E8F0" style="font-family: STIXTwoMath-Regular; font-size: 1px" transform="translate(5.1209,0)">(</text><text fill="#E6E8F0" style="font-family: STIXTwoMath-Regular; font-size: 1px" transform="translate(5.4779,0)">𝑦</text><text fill="#E6E8F0" style="font-family: STIXTwoMath-Regular; font-size: 0.7px" transform="translate(5.9879,0.21)">𝑖</text><text fill="#E6E8F0" style="font-family: STIXTwoMath-Regular; font-size: 1px" transform="translate(6.4419,0)">−</text><text fill="#E6E8F0" style="font-family: STIXTwoMath-Regular; font-size: 1px" transform="translate(7.3841,0)">𝑦</text><text fill="#E6E8F0" style="font-family: STIXTwoMath-Regular; font-size: 0.7px" transform="translate(7.8941,0.21)">𝑗</text><text fill="#E6E8F0" style="font-family: STIXTwoMath-Regular; font-size: 1px" transform="translate(8.2358,0)">)</text><text fill="#E6E8F0" style="font-family: STIXTwoMath-Regular; font-size: 0.7px" transform="translate(8.5928,-0.36)">2</text><text fill="#E6E8F0" style="font-family: STIXTwoMath-Regular; font-size: 1px" transform="translate(9.2016,0)">+</text><text fill="#E6E8F0" style="font-family: STIXTwoMath-Regular; font-size: 1px" transform="translate(10.1438,0)">(</text><text fill="#E6E8F0" style="font-family: STIXTwoMath-Regular; font-size: 1px" transform="translate(10.5008,0)">𝑧</text><text fill="#E6E8F0" style="font-family: STIXTwoMath-Regular; font-size: 0.7px" transform="translate(10.9938,0.21)">𝑖</text><text fill="#E6E8F0" style="font-family: STIXTwoMath-Regular; font-size: 1px" transform="translate(11.4478,0)">−</text><text fill="#E6E8F0" style="font-family: STIXTwoMath-Regular; font-size: 1px" transform="translate(12.39,0)">𝑧</text><text fill="#E6E8F0" style="font-family: STIXTwoMath-Regular; font-size: 0.7px" transform="translate(12.883,0.21)">𝑗</text><text fill="#E6E8F0" style="font-family: STIXTwoMath-Regular; font-size: 1px" transform="translate(13.2247,0)">)</text><text fill="#E6E8F0" style="font-family: STIXTwoMath-Regular; font-size: 0.7px" transform="translate(13.5817,-0.36)">2</text><text fill="#E6E8F0" style="font-family: STIXTwoMath-Regular; font-size: 1px" transform="translate(14.246,0)">=</text><text fill="#E6E8F0" style="font-family: STIXTwoMath-Regular; font-size: 1px" transform="translate(15.2438,0)">𝐿</text><text fill="#E6E8F0" style="font-family: STIXTwoMath-Regular; font-size: 0.7px" transform="translate(15.8128,-0.36)">2</text></svg></div>

Just wondering whether any HTML gurus out there know whether this is

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Now that I’m checking it more carefully, I do see the math expressions, but not all of them.

This is on the browser (as I’m on a dark theme, Google renders the page in dark mode), and on pdf is the same, saving it with the backgrounds option enabled, I can see exactly the same,

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and here it starts getting weird: when I save it in default mode (no backgrounds), the math text is seen much lighter, barely visible :hushed_face:

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and here it goes fully weird: on the next page, both on dark mode and on standard mode, as you can see, the math expressions do not render on the pdf, just blank spaces.

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I’m on LMDE 7 which comes with the latest Firefox, v157, released a few days ago.

Although I did try this at work on Google Chrome and Windows 10, and everything rendered and saved just fine. :face_with_raised_eyebrow:

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I’ve tried Chrome and hate their entire approach to GUI.

Call me “conservative”, “traditionalist”, or “stuck in the past”, I absolutely love the layout and GUI of the older Firefox, as per this snapshot:

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I’ve managed to maintain that layout by importing my entire profile directory (and not simply exporting+importing my Bookmarks), along with the Bookmark database format.

I’ve tried the newer Firefox GUI and it seems too much a clone of Chrome for me to want to adopt that. I will be trying out some of those other browsers that others have offered as Firefox successors because of my disenchantment with the Mozilla Team’s not offering a toggle setting to “Preserve Legacy GUI”. :frowning:

On another note, relating to the “legacy” Bookmark database, that is different from the newer databases wich are offering fewer fields associated with each bookmark, only because the almighty “They” (meaning Developers) feel it best to discontinue offering those fields, which some of us consider critical to our way of using the browser.

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:frowning:

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