Selectively remove items from a web page prior to printing [web]: PrintWhatYouLike.com (beta)

PrintWhatYouLike.com (beta)
http://www.printwhatyoulike.com/

If you are annoyed when printing web pages containing tons of ads - resulting in wasted color ink, then this service is for you!

Merging convenience with "going green", PrintWhatYouLike helps to save paper and ink by letting you selectively remove elements on a site giving you the ability to exclude them printing altogether!


Another cool feature is the ability to add another web page into the mix, giving you the option to print more than one page all at once, still giving you the option of removing ads or other elements you do not wish to print. Nice.

The only downside I can see so far is that removing an element really does remove an element from the page, meaning that depending on how the CSS was written, this could dramatically alter the way the page looks. For example, you'll find that images, text blocks and other elements start to shift and move around as you go about removing items from the page.

Perhaps a way to create a layer that sits on top of the elements might be a better solution (or replacing/masking the elements altogether with a blank div with the same location properties)...allowing you to have a more "unaltered" look to the page prior to printing.

Changes are undoable, and it is very user-friendly. This is a VERY cool idea, and I'm surprised someone didn't think of it sooner!

Currently, the site is in beta, so expect new features as time goes by...

Firefox Extension add-on (Thanks to AnthonyRusso!): Nuke Anything Enhanced

5 comments:

hari said...

I love this tool! I had been lookinng for this kind of tool for quite some times. Not all pages are print-friendly. Some might create their own print format or save to pdf, but this tool just work for all pages.

AnthonyRusso said...

If you use FireFox there is a great extensuion that does this simply.

Nuke Anything Enhanced

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/951

Anthony

maximillian_x said...

@AnthonyRusso:

Thanks! I will check this out!

Jon said...

Or use the "MyPage Bookmarklet"

http://mrclay.org/index.php/2006/04/23/mypage-bookmarklet/

which worked with FF, Safari, Opera, and IE6 when introduced in 2006.

paradox said...

Firefox also has another cool add-on called 'Aardvark', which is also worth using.

http://karmatics.com/aardvark/

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