Local capture of entire discussion topic as a single PDF

[ericmarceau]

Of likely interest to many …

If you’ve ever wanted to capture the entire contents of a Topic Discussion from a Discourse site, such as LinuxCommunity.io or ubuntu.discourse.com, there is a simple way which was recently pointed out to me on the Ubuntu site here.

Using CTLP will cause the browser to send a signal to “transform” the full set of posting in the topic’s discussion as a single HTML page, along with the prompt to print, where the option to select “Save as PDF” is available.

[Norm24 (Norm)]

I read that thread and have copied several threads from the old UM site that really helped me out.

[ericmarceau]

That was one reason why I wanted to discover how to do that.

It could be a useful technique to “mass-migrate” select Topic Discussions into a “Choice Topics” repository.

(discussion tabled for future date)

[hydn (Hayden James)]

Note, you can find the CTRL + P and a full list of Discourse shortcuts by opening the “Keyboard shortcuts” window:

Which launches this: