Printing electronic documents from large html screens

A system comprising:

• one or more computers;
• and
• a computer-readable medium coupled to the one or more computers having instructions stored thereon which, when executed by the one or more computers, cause the one or more computers to perform operations comprising:
• identifying a user interface component rendered by a computer application on a display device;
• dividing the user interface component into a plurality of sub-components;
• converting each sub-component into a respective canvas component resulting in a plurality of canvas components, wherein a size of each sub-component is selected such that a time taken to convert each sub-component into the respective canvas component is less than a threshold timeout associated with the computer application that rendered the user interface component;
• converting the plurality of canvas components into a portable document format (PDF) document;
• and
• displaying the PDF document on the display device.

A non-transitory computer-readable medium coupled to one or more computers having instructions stored thereon which, when executed by the one or more computers, cause the one or more computers to perform operations comprising:

• receiving, via a user interface displayed on a display device, input to convert a user interface component rendered by a computer application on the display device into a portable document format (PDF) document;
• and
• in response to receiving the user input:
• identifying the user interface component,
• dividing the user interface component into a plurality of sub-components,
• converting each sub-component into a respective canvas component resulting in a plurality of canvas components, wherein a size of each sub-component is selected such that a time taken to convert each sub-component into the respective canvas component is less than a threshold timeout associated with the computer application that rendered the user interface component,
• converting the plurality of canvas components into a portable document format (PDF) document, and
• displaying the PDF document on the display device.