Big update to The Printliminator! Version 4! All thanks to Rob Garrison. The premise: get websites ready to print by easily removing things that you don’t want and finessing the page into shape.
New in v4
All the same great features it had before (removing graphics, applying a print stylesheet, etc), plus:
- Chrome and Opera extensions (Firefox coming soon). This makes it work for sites using Content Security Policy.
- New design / icons
- Drag it around (no longer fixed to upper right)
- Ready for non-English translations
- Keyboard commands
- Generally rewritten/improved/modernized
Demo Video
Linkage
- GitHub Repo
- Public face
- Wiki: documentation, links to error reporting, browser extensions, etc.
Thanks Chris! It was fun working on this project!
The Firefox extension probably won’t be available until around December 2015, when Firefox v43 comes out.
And I also wanted to add that I don’t own a Mac, so if anyone out there with the knowledge and a bit of free time wants to help port the extension over to Safari, I’m sure there would be a lot of grateful users.
Is there a way to use this to generate a stylesheet? This would be immensely handy for creating print styles!
It does not generate a stylesheet, but that is an interesting idea.
This also just made me think of an idea to save your actions in The Printliminator to localstorage so you can apply them to a page… like if you want to print a bunch of articles from one site, but you don’t want to keep repeating the same actions for every page.
+1 on that request.
I’m not sure how that would work… right now the bookmarklet/extension adds a class to hide the element (using an
!importantflag)…In order to generate a print stylesheet, it would need to add an existing class, and hopefully it chooses a unique one, or id, and set it to display none in the print style. This is likely even more difficult to do if you choose to hide the reverse of the selected element.
Veeery nice, thanks Chris and Rob!
The only complaints are:
1. MacOS-style fat box shadows are hideous – but I get that’s personal taste;
2. quite bad examples in the video – the print versions were pretty good to begin with (GitHub is basically perfect!) XD
The bookmarklet is very neat. I would also recommend to check out this one, which I’ve been using for quite a while: http://www.printwhatyoulike.com/bookmarklet
Thanks for sharing! That looks like a nice bookmarklet as well.
It’s funny that I discovered a bunch of alternatives after working on this one. I learned of Aardvark which is also nice, but I think more aimed at developers.