I’m trying to find an extension that will allow me to print pages such as the one I’ve linked. When I attempt to do so, the page goes black and I’m prevented from snagging the content. I’ve also tried screenshot tools, including a few grab & print style extensions. I’ve messed around with the inspector console, tried disabling javascript, more or less all of the things you might futz with to circumvent this. No joy.
Does anyone have a solution or tool they use for this? I’d like to have this on paper so I don’t have to stare at a screen when I’m playing. (I’m a shit jazz musician and need tab. I blame rock and roll.)
Cheers!
Pretty sure you can copy paste text from UG, and their tabs are availible on the wayback machine, that might work too
Depends what you want to grab. Sometimes you can inspect the page and grab content from their.
A lot of DRMed content that prevents screen recording can be played within a VM, with the host recording the display output window.
Or so I’ve heard…
In a window inside a window…that isn’t called windoze.
What are you even talking about? This is a website I’m trying to print, nothing is being played here except my guitar. I’m trying to get sheet music from a protected page.
Yup, and if you opened the webpage within a VM, you could easily screenshot it without the DRM blacking it out for you.
You’re in a piracy community asking for tips on pirating content. If you’re going to be an asshole when they’re given to you; you’re welcome to fuck off somewhere else.
I use Freetar.
Like Invidious, but for Ultimate-Guitar
I rely on one of the instances, but will eventually look into self-hosting it.
This is great, thanks.
I’ve had a bit of success with HDMI out to a splitter that does something funky with the edid, then into a capture card. The PC detects the capture card as a second display, drag the content into it, screen cap the “second display”. I had all the gear for unrelated projects, but I haven’t found any content I couldn’t grab this way.
Don’t click on print on the page but use your browsers print dialog (usually CTRL + P).
Try turning off hardware acceleration in your browser. Not sure if it works the same way, but this makes things like netflix able to be screen shared when they pull the same black screen shit
Good suggestion, but no luck. I got hopeful when it took longer than normal to think about the print page… probably because hardware accel was disabled.
I’m on android and there’s no issue printing to pdf:
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If it helps, when I open this tab in their app I can print it, despite not being able to do it in my browser. Not that it’s an ideal choice.
there are a bunch of style sheet and javascript set up to work in tandem with each other that i find rather upsetting. you can go in and force things to load completely rather than on scroll but you then need to make sure that the page allows for that to happen. and they didn’t exactly name their json/javascript/css in any way to make things easy to find either, as they are all name dynamically on site load. i’d go with testing without hardware acceleration, and if that doesn’t work then you’ll have to find a way to disable very specific files from loading or neuter them so that they load the way you need them to.
Thanks. I’ve wandered that rabbit warren for a while with no luck. They’re pretty tricksy. I disabled hardware accel, but that failed as well.
I’ll keep trying.
Screenshot works on my phone
This might not necessarily be the kind of solution you’re looking for but what I would do in this situation is use the web archive plugin to archive the page and then take the archived page and print that out instead.
Does that help?
Hmm. Interesting approach. If it works, it works. I’ll give it a shot and report back.
Edit: Unfortunately, this didn’t work either.
Can you share the URL?
It’s in the post itself.
