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How to Export All Source Code to PDF Document & Print it in VSCode IDE
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Jul 9, 2025
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Uh hello guys, welcome to this video. So
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in this video, I'll show you a VS code
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extension which allows you to directly
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export all your source code to a PDF
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document or you can directly print it
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directly inside VS code. So it will add
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a button. So for installing this
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extension just go to the extensions tab
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and just write here in the search bar
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print
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and uh as soon as you write this the
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second extension which comes by the name
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of print you will see this is the
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extension and it's used by almost
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530,000 developers and what this
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extension do it actually adds a button
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right here side by side in the editor
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itself. So just need to click the
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install button and as soon as you
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install it you need to go to your source
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code. So this is actually a file here
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and right here you will see this button
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added right here which is of the print
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button.
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So if you just click this button so what
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this will do it will actually open a
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page in the browser directly and this
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print window will open directly right
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here. So from here if you have a printer
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you can directly print your source code
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or if you just want to save it as a PDF
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file simply select from a drop-down here
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select as PDF and you can select all
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pages or you can even say custom pages
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as well and you can select the layout
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here portrait or landscape.
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You can see that. And then more
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settings. You can even say paper size,
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you can control it, everything.
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And click on save. And then it will ask
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you the location where to save it.
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Simply select.
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After that, you will see your file has
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been successfully saved. And as you can
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see, it also tells you the date and the
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time. This is a file name index.php. And
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you can see with uh very good syntax
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highlighting with line numbers all your
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PDF is constructed here. And you can see
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all your source code. This is a simple
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PHP file, Laravel code here. And with
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one click you can actually export your
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all your code inside your VS code file
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into a PDF document. So it's a very
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useful extension. So you can go to any
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file here which you want to export this.
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Sometimes you do want to share the
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source code and then again you will see
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for for every file here you have this
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button here. So simply you need to click
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this button and once you click it you
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will see this window will appear and you
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will be able to save this code directly
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to PDF and click on save here. You will
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see the code will be saved with this
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name here. So you see
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the code is successfully saved here. So
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if the code is larger here as you can
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see in this case it basically splits
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across multiple pages here. It
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calculates how many pages are required.
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So in this case it created four pages in
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the PDF document. So it can handle much
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larger code as well. So you can see
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that. So it's a must-have extension. So
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simply go to extensions install this
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extension. It's totally free and it will
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save you a lot of time as well. So you
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can see that and one more thing you can
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even do if you only want to
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let's suppose only a part of the code
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you can select the code here that you
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want to export
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and then click on
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right click it and then say print. So
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this will only export the code that you
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selected not the full file. So you can
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even do that as well. Simply select the
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code that you want to export to PDF and
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just right click and this option is
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added in the context menu. You will see
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print option is added. So right click
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print and you will be able to export
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only the code that you select. So this
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is a extension that you should have
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simply install this extension in VS code
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which will export your code to PDF. Uh
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