When you're done
Click "New Page" and enter a url to use PrintWhatYouLike for real!
Welcome to PrintWhatYouLike!
All PrintWhatYouLike commands can be found on the toolbar to the left. The top of the toolbar includes several important links:
- Home - Clicking Mr. Happy Printer brings you back to www.printwhatyoulike.com
- New Page - Edit a new page when you are done with this one
- Add Page - Add a web page to this page. More info below
- Save As - Save your work to pdf or html. More info below
- Help - Lists all commands and what they do. Every command has a keyboard shortcut, which is listed here
Print
When you click "Print", only your modified page will be printed.
Open Print Preview (File -> Print Preview) to see how this page will print.
Undo/Redo
All your changes in PrintWhatYouLike are undoable, so don't worry about messing up!
Just click "Undo" or type Control-Z.
1. Selection
Click this box to select it.
"More" will expand this selection and "Less" will shrink it.
"Clear" unselects everything.
2. Isolate
Select this box and click "Isolate".
Whoosh! Everything else disappears. Click Undo to get it back.
3. Remove
Select this box and click "Remove". Don't forget to click Undo if you want to see it again.
4. Fit To Width
Select this box and click "Fit To Width".
Sometimes the text you wish to print is squished into a narrow column.
Printing these pages is incredibly wasteful as the columns must be many pages long to compensate for being so narrow.
Fit To Width forces this columns to use the entire page width.
5. Resize
Select this box and click "Resize". Everything else will become uneditable. Click and drag the edges of this box to resize it. Click outside this box to resume editing.
6. Change Text Size
Click the "+" and "-" next to "Text Size" to increase and decrease text size.
7. Font Type
Change the page font with the "Font Type" drop-down.
Generally speaking, sans-serif fonts like Helvetica and Verdana look better on screen, while serif fonts like Times New Roman and Georgia look better on paper.
Ecofont includes tiny holes in the characters to minimize ink consumption.
8. Remove Background
Click "Remove Background" to remove the background and make the text black.
9. Remove Images
Click "Remove Images" to remove all the images.
10. Save As
Click "Save As" -> "PDF" to save this page as a PDF.
"Save As" -> "HTML" displays this page with the editor removed.
11. Add Page
To merge another web page into this one, Click "Add Page" and enter a url like www.cnn.com.
Your new page will be added to the bottom of this page.
If the page you're adding and the page you started with are from the same site, your changes to the first page will be copied to the new page.
Try it: Click "Remove Background" and "Remove Images", click "Add Page" and enter: www.printwhatyoulike.com/demo.
A copy of this page will be added to the bottom of this page.
The background and images on the new page will be missing because your changes were copied over.
