Save Page with Overlaid QR Code

[clort81]

Background

Idea for saving and printing pages.

Proposed solution

Create an option to 'Save Page As' - for archival, and overlay the qr code at the top of the page, so it can be printed to paper and recipients can open the page with their phone.
Would need to be someone who knows way more HTML and firefox than me :(

[rugk]

Hi and thanks for your suggestion. So you want to save the QR code?

Do you know there is already a way to do so?
Please have a look at https://github.com/rugk/offline-qr-code/wiki/FAQ#how-to-save-the-qr-code-on-disk

If so, what prevented you from finding that option?
If not, how/why do you want to save the HTML page? (And if you actually wanted to save that, this is also possible in the context menu by choosing "Save page as…", that's the usual browser feature and I tested it and it works for me. It also had the QR code you generated in there, one just cannot change it.)

[clort81]

I failed to communicate what would be an enhancement here.

I save webpages to disk then print them.
It would be good to have the qr code embedded in the html of the saved page, so that the printed page includes the QR code at top.

This would allow the recipients of the printed pages to open the link in their phones.

This is a suggestion for an enhancement and a function not currently implemented.

Thanks for the response, rugk.

[rugk]

I save webpages to disk then print them.

Okay, then why is saving the QR code as PNG or SVG not enough? You can anyway drag it into any word processing tool (Word/LIbreOffice Writer or so) and then further edit it?

It would be good to have the qr code embedded in the html of the saved page, so that the printed page includes the QR code at top.

If you follow the steps I've explained above (right click -> "Save page as…"), the QR code should be embedded in the HTML as you say. AFAIK I've tried that even before I replied before.

In any case I think you may need to further edit the page anyway, as the output of the extension alone is likely not very nice to read.

You mentioned printing. We could actually try to implement a print option in the said context menu (though this linked API would likely just trigger/print the current tab instead of the browser popup, though I'm unsure whether that would be too useful, again, given because one would need to edit it further.
At least printing would also allow an easy way to create a PDF.