Comments on: How to print from Google Wave

By: gsarig

gsarig — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 22:31:57 +0000

@Roman Kuzmik I just tried it and it works great! Thanks for the tip!

By: Roman Kuzmik

Roman Kuzmik — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 16:59:03 +0000

1. chrome.exe -user-agent=”Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; U; CPU iPhone OS 3_0 like Mac OS X; en-us) AppleWebKit/528.18 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/4.0 Mobile/7A341 Safari/528.16″
2. fire up wave
3. click ‘Go ahead’
4. select wave
5. print using browser’s print page functionality

By: Chad

Chad — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 02:28:38 +0000

Another crude alternative.

Select and Copy the Wave and paste into Word. You lose a bit of the formatting, but if all you need is the text, works like a charm.

By: Mickey

Mickey — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 12:57:02 +0000

That helps a bit, but still doesn’t fix it. In most (all?) browsers, it only prints the first page. For a wave of any decent length, most of it will get cut off.

By: Tobi

Tobi — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 12:41:27 +0000

Printing is easy: Just maximize the wave by clicking the squre in the top right corner. Then you can print just what you have maximized.

By: gsarig

gsarig — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 14:40:57 +0000

I guess the User Agent Switcher way used to work but not anymore…

Anyway, I needed to print a wave, so I went for the following “dirty” solution (not recommended, but if you are desperate you have to do something):

1. I captured the wave using PicPick: it’s a screenshot capture program that can capture an entire page, no matter how much scrolling the page has
2. I imported the image in excel, and I set the print area in a way that the image’s width takes one page and the height as many pages as necessary (constrained proportions, of course)
3. I printed the wave and the result was decent.

(I use excel for this job because it is convenient when it comes to printing a large image in more than one pages)

I know it’s a rather lame solution, but I couldn’t think of anything better…

By: Claus

Claus — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 10:43:18 +0000

The Iphone user agent way does not work for me either. the wave I am interested in spans serveral pages and I am stuck with the first page with or without the the “User Agent Switcher” extension for Firefox.
best,
Claus

By: Mickey

Mickey — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 01:12:36 +0000

The fact that it says “browser not supported” isn’t a problem. You can click the “go ahead” link at the bottom and it’ll proceed.

However, as gazbond mentioned, the resulting page is now blank. This technique used to work perfectly, so I’m not sure what has changed. If anyone has alternatives for how to print, please let us know.

By: gazbond

gazbond — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 23:38:17 +0000

This doesn’t work with Firefox and “User Agent Switcher” extension on OS X Snow Leopard. Google Wave complains that the user agent (iPhone 3.0) is not compatible.
Choosing to ignore this warning results in a blank page!
…don’t you know

By: gsarig

gsarig — Sat, 16 Jan 2010 10:48:31 +0000

Doesn’t seem to work for me. When I switch the profile to iPhone 3.0 the google wave page says that my browser is not supported. Any ideas by any change?