How to make sure every image appears in the PDF
Nearly every modern site defers image loading until an image approaches the viewport, which is good for page speed and bad for conversion — images you never scrolled past were never downloaded, so they come out as blank boxes. Load All Images pre-scrolls the page so deferred images fetch in, then returns to the top before capturing.
Takes about 2 min
Steps
Open the image-heavy page
A photo essay, a product gallery, a documentation page full of diagrams.
Enable Load All Images in the popup
The extension will pre-scroll the page to trigger every deferred image.
Wait for it to finish
On a gallery with hundreds of images this is hundreds of network requests. Give it a few seconds.
Convert
The images are now in the page, so they're in the PDF.
Worth knowing
- This fixes deferred images. It cannot recover an image the site never serves — if a file 404s or a CDN blocks you, there is nothing to fetch.
- On an infinite-scroll feed, only what has actually loaded is included. Scroll to the point you want first, then convert.
- Chrome's built-in Print to PDF fails this on most sites, which is the single most common reason people go looking for an extension.
Questions
Why are images missing or blank in my PDF?
The site defers image loading until each image nears the viewport, so images you never scrolled past were never downloaded. Turn on Load All Images before converting. If an image is still blank afterwards, the site isn't serving that file.
Does this work on an endless feed?
Partly. Load All Images triggers the images within the content that's currently loaded, but an infinite-scroll feed keeps appending as you scroll. Scroll to the endpoint you actually want, wait for it to settle, then convert.