Google chrome is browser currently regarded as best web browser among all the curremt browser due to its simpicilty, speed, extensions available and portability. It is currently available across all the desktop and mobile operating systems with almost similer set of features and functionalities. One such feature that it provides over other browsers to allow a web page or save any content as a pdf with its print feature. While finding the option to print a webpage or any other content is a bit tricky, Redmi and Mi phones take it a bit further requiring an addition application to be set to enable to save those as pdf.
The following are the steps to find the print feature in chrome to save a web page or any other content in pdf on Redmi Note 3 and Mi phones:
1) Go to options menu in chrome and click on Share:
2) Click on Print from the print icon from the options of applications to share with:
3) A Print Preview page will be displayed from where you can choose the page numbwe or no. of pages to print. Then you can click on PDF icon. This should give you an option to browse for the location to save the file but in Redmi Note 3 and some other Mi phones the Document Applications which this feature use to save file as pdf is disabled by default and you get an toast message Turn on Documents in Settings> Installed apps first. You have to enable this application explicitly.
4) So If you get this toast message in minimize this app and go to Settings> Installed apps
5) Here you get list of all the apps installed onto your phone. you need to search the Documents app, in the list displayed. Sometime it takes a moment to load all the applications if there are many apps installed on phone. so wait until the complete list is loaded.
6) Now click on the Documents app and click on the option to enable the app on the bottom.
7) Now switch back to minimized Print Preview or Repeat steps 1 to 3 on chrome and click on Save PDF.
8) Click on PDF icon after selecting the copies or paper size. Now this should give an option to Browse the Location to save the File.
9) After browsing to the location where you want to save the file. Click on Save in the bottom.
10) The page will be saved on the location you selected in Step 9. You can open in in Adobe Reader or any other PDF Viewer.
Note: This Documents App gets disabled automatically after some specific time or every time you reboot the phone. So you have to Enable it every time you get the mentioned Toast in Step 3.
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