With the deprecation of Cloud Print, Google announced that the latter option, which provides a streamlined workflow, was also being removed from Chrome.
“Save as PDF” stores a local copy, while the “Save to Google Drive” destination takes that file and automatically puts it in Google Drive. When printing a page, Chrome’s print dialog has long offered two options that don’t involve a physical printer. However, the feature is now living on in the ‘Save to Google Drive’ Chrome extension. An associated capability that lets users print a PDF copy of a web page and have that file automatically upload to Google Drive was also supposed to be deprecated. On the first of this year, Google Cloud Print shut down after 10 years.
