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Rant on Printing Mutual Fund Docs (SAI) on M* and [deleted by Maurice]
I would rather just go to fund website and get the SAI. Why rely on M*? While I admit I have found a fund with no website, or one which had one but did not have SAI on the site. In that case M* or brokerage site can be of help. However, this should happen rarely.
FWIW, in Firefox, you can right click over a frame (the SAI on M*) and display that frame in a separate window/tab. From there you can print the contents of the SAI. (This doesn't work on IE; haven't tried Chrome, Opera, etc.)
However, M* displays the SAI as HTML. If you want a pdf, you'll have to convert it as originally suggested. And you still may not have something as well formatted as the original pdf.
Maybe I wasn't quite clear. If your cursor is over the SAI and you right click, the menu includes "This Frame". A couple of submenu items are to open in new window or in new tab. Either way, that gets you a webpage with just the SAI. You can then print this page.
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Derf
(The link is on Matthew's Literature and Forms page. Since there's a single SAI for all the funds, the link is shown after all the per-fund links.)
http://quote.morningstar.com/fund-filing/SAI/2014/4/30/t.aspx?t=MAFSX&ft=485BPOS&d=7fba07bce523a6afe29eba92eb16cbfb
http://matthewsasia.com/resources/docs/pdf/literature/SAI_current.pdf
In W7 anyway, if you cursor down to the lower right and hover, a print (and other) option appears
However, M* displays the SAI as HTML. If you want a pdf, you'll have to convert it as originally suggested. And you still may not have something as well formatted as the original pdf.