Can Safari print my "selection only" rather than an entire page?

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Can Safari print my "selection only" rather than an entire page?

I am trying to move from Chrome to Safari (now that I have an iPad, seems easier to share info). However, one hurdle I keep running into is the INABILITY to print my "selection only" when in Safari. I don't like to waste paper and often print on half sheets/scraps when I just need a paragraph of info. This is easy in Chrome, am I missing this option somewhere in Safari?

I'm running Mojave with all updates installed as of today.

iMac (Retina 5K, 27-inch, 2017), macOS Mojave (10.14)

Posted on Oct 21, 2018 4:23 PM

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Eric Root

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Oct 22, 2018 7:01 AM in response to Tynee

You are welcome. I don't know of a way to do that in Safari. Again a workaround, but for longer passages, select the entire passage, copy it, paste it into Text Edit or another program, and then print it.

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Eric Root

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Oct 23, 2018 9:25 AM in response to Tynee

One workaround is to take a screenshot of your selection, then open the screen shot in Preview, and print it from there.

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Allan Jones

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Oct 23, 2018 9:26 AM in response to Tynee

Hopefully it will get changed soon....

Well, we are not Apple but there is a way to get your concerns to Apple. This is where to start:

Feedback - Safari - Apple

Some people think it doesn't work but a big outcry over the changing of some key locations on the v12 iOS keyboard resulted in the 12.0.1 version reverting to the previous layout.

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Tynee Author

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Oct 22, 2018 5:52 AM in response to Eric Root

Thanks for the idea! I have done that for a few things (and I love that feature especially for saving images quickly) but a lot of extra clicking and an extra file I have to delete just to print something. Also, the thing I want to print is sometimes longer than a page, I just don't want all the header and footer and photos to print.

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Tynee Author

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Oct 22, 2018 7:12 AM in response to Eric Root

Yeah... just easier to go back to Chrome quick and print my selection. Hopefully it will get changed soon or I'll have to give up on Safari... again 😟

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Tynee Author

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Oct 23, 2018 9:26 AM in response to Allan Jones

Thanks for the link to the feedback, I'll try that too!

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Can Safari print my "selection only" rather than an entire page?

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