How to save a web page as a PDF
Chrome's own way is Ctrl+P → Save as PDF, which re-renders the page with its print stylesheet — often dropping backgrounds, breaking layouts and losing anything positioned. ScrnCap takes the opposite route: it captures the page as you see it and exports that image as a PDF, so what you archive is what was on screen.
Doing it manually in Chrome
- 1Press Ctrl+P (Cmd+P on macOS) to open the print dialog.
- 2Set the destination to "Save as PDF".
- 3Open "More settings" and turn on Background graphics if the page looks washed out.
- 4Click Save and choose where the file goes.
Where the manual way falls short
- Printing uses the site's print stylesheet, not the one you were looking at: backgrounds vanish, columns collapse, sticky elements land in the middle of the text, and some sites disable printing altogether.
- Interactive states are lost — an expanded accordion, a hovered tooltip or a filled-in form is not what ends up in the file.
Doing it with ScrnCap
- 1Capture the page with Alt+Shift+F (full page) or pick the area you need.
- 2Tidy it up in the editor — crop, annotate, blur anything private.
- 3Export as PDF. Batch mode turns several tabs into one multi-page PDF in the same step.
Free, offline and no account needed — the capture, the annotation and the export all happen on your own machine.