One of the features that every Chrome user awaiting and Google Chrome lacks is Print Preview feature and let me tell you Google Chrome won’t getting this Print Preview feature in their next version of Chrome 6 either you have to wait for this feature for Chrome 7 release.But however we can “Print preview” pages in Google Chrome, here is how.
So we are using Google Chrome browser every time we need to print pages we can‘t open that page in any other browser to print preview pages and then print from that browser.It will be not a permanent solution also.
Instead you can install IE Tab Google Chrome extension, which renders IE engine inside Chrome and all know Internet Explorer offers print preview feature.After installing IE Tab extension whenever you want to print preview page in Google Chrome just click IE Tab icon on the toolbar which displays that page in IE Tab.
Now right click on the page and click “Print Preview” to preview the page and then print. After printing close that page opened with IE Tab.
Our purpose is to print preivew pages from Google Chrome which is served by IE Tab and more over we are using IE tab for print preview of pages and not for surfing with IE engine in Google chrome.
What do you say?
This is a good tip and would have really helped me during the last school year. I was using a course management site that did not display the WYSIWYG editing features in Google but did in IE. Unhappily, to use the IE tab, I still have to log in again and navigate back to the page I wanted to work in, just like copying the URL and pasting it into IE requires. Ah well.
I was using this capability when I had Windows on my computer. But I got so ,so, so tired of applications crashing (something that a generation of Microsoft customers have been trained to think is “to be expected” on computers) that I finally bit the bullet and replaced Windows with Ubuntu.
Until Microsoft decides to build IE for Linuxen, this “workaround” won’t be of much use. It probably won’t help mac users any more than it will help linux users. Right now, I’m printing to PDF and using gv to preview the PDF.
Having Chrome do the print preview itself would be great, but I think I’d now root for having the capability in CUPS instead, so that it could benefit any application that can Print. And doing it there would work for macs as well as linux, since they both use CUPS. Windows is just about the only system these days that doesn’t use CUPS yet (though it could probably be ported using a posix subsystem, either from Microsoft or a third party)
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Recently, Google Chrome dev build version 12.0.733.0 seems to have a Print Preview feature that nearly works WITHOUT the IE Tab extension. Download and install Chrome 12.0.733.0 or higher, type about:flags in the address bar and enable the Print Preview feature and restart Chrome 12. Then view any web page and select the Print option from the Menu to display the Print Preview tab.
Hopefully Print Preview will be fully implemented in the final release of Chrome 12.