Print Edit WE
Edit web pages prior to printing. Delete, hide and format elements. Edit text. Remove adverts and sidebars.
CHANGES
Version 29.5
• New option to prevent font ligatures inside text (enabled by default).
OVERVIEW
Print Edit WE provides facilities to edit the contents of a web page prior to printing or saving as HTML or MHTML. Elements in the web page can be formatted, hidden or deleted and text can be edited or inserted. Unwanted content, such as adverts and sidebars, can easily be removed.
Note, to use the Save As HTML feature, the Save Page WE extension (version 14.0 or later) must be installed and enabled.
BASIC OPERATION
To start editing the page, click on the Print Edit WE button on the main toolbar, or select Print Edit WE > Start Editing on the context menu. A blue 'EDIT' (editing) badge will appear on the button.
The 'Web Style' feature is disabled by default, so that the page displayed looks similar to how the page would look if printed normally. When the 'Web Style' feature is enabled, the page displayed will look similar to how the page looks during normal browsing.
The 'Text Pieces' feature is disabled by default, so that only whole blocks of text can be selected. When the 'Text Pieces' feature is enabled, individual pieces of text can be selected and edited and line breaks are displayed.
The 'View More' feature is disabled by default, so that only elements that are normally visible are displayed. When the 'View More' feature is enabled, elements that are normally invisible are also displayed and can be selected and edited.
An edited web page can be saved as a single HTML file, which can be viewed or re-edited using Firefox or Chrome. An edited web page can also be saved as a MHTML file.
Click the 'Preview' button to see how the edited web page will look when printed. Close the preview window to return to editing.
PRINT EDIT WE TOOLBAR
The buttons available on the Print Edit WE toolbar are:
• Select - select all or graphic or page-break elements, or re-select elements from previous command.
• Deselect - deselect all currently selected elements.
• Hide - hide currently selected elements.
• Delete - delete currently selected elements.
• Hide Except - hide all elements except those currently selected.
• Delete Except - delete all elements except those currently selected, with varying restrictions.
• Format - apply format properties to currently selected elements.
• Text - edit a text piece or insert new text before or after element.
• Undo - undo the action of previous edit command.
• Undo All - undo the actions of all previous edit commands.
• Save - save web page as a single HTML or MHTML file.
• Text Pieces - allow selection and editing of individual text pieces.
• View More - view invisible elements in the page.
• Web Style - alternately remove or apply CSS print stylesheets.
• Preview - open the Print Preview window.
• Close - finish editing.
• Tools - access to the Fix Page Breaks features and to the Options dialog.
• Help - show the Help panel.
The Delete Except button has three menu items:
• Restricted - higher level elements retain their size and relative position.
• Without Float - higher level elements retain their size and relative position, but cannot float right.
• Unrestricted - higher level elements are resized and repositioned freely, but cannot float right.
In this context, “higher level elements” means the ancestors (parent, grandparent, etc) of the currently selected elements.
MOUSE ACTIONS
The mouse actions are:
• Move - move highlight box to highlight element.
• Click - select or deselect highlighted element.
• Right-Click - inspect format properties for highlighted element.
• Drag - select all elements within capture box.
• Shift+Drag - select all graphic elements within capture box.
• Ctrl+Drag - deselect all elements within capture box.
SUPPORT
Please e-mail: [email protected]
LICENSE
Distributed under the GNU General Public License version 2.
See LICENCE.txt file and http://www.gnu.org/licenses/
Latest reviews
very efficient tool
Unfortunately doesnt work when opening up local HTML or MHTML files.
Ohmygosh - this extension has so much promise! But it fails to deliver in a number of ways. Even after I delete all the unwanted elements and the webpage looks _exactly_ as I want it to be, when it gets to the printing stage, it still looks a total mess. There are large amounts of blank spaces that take up valuable paper space. When I preview before printing, I can see several white spaces that say 'Advertisement', despite the fact that I have absolutely removed all elements other than the article itself (I've doublechecked this). Some of the photos are too large to fit on one page, creating huge amounts of wasted blank space on the next page. When I switch to the system printing dialogue and choose "Fit to page", I then become unable to see a preview before printing, which risks a bad printout. I even tried saving a whole-page screenshot after making the clean version of page, but that still resulted in a mess of blank spaces. The native Save option only offers to save as HTML or MHTML. No options at all for PDF, PNG, JPG, or WEBP. For all of these annoying reasons, I AM OUT. (Too bad, I found it so promising! 😿)
Does not lock the page (keep a static copy) when editing the content to determine what to delete or keep. If the page refreshes, especially if scripted, I get an error on loading page while previewing in this extension. The page updated, and this extension allowed the refresh. It should LOCK the page it shows that the user will edit. Users cannot edit an ever changing document, plus a refreshed document may not render while this extension is previewing it.
6666666666666666666666666666666666666 And it's free, which is so cool!!!
Exactly what I needed! I love that this extension presents a "what you see is what you get" interface for controlling exactly what makes into into the final print dialog. I wanted something that would allow me to control the page-break behavior when printing Gmails to pdf. This extension was so intuitive and made this tass effortless - simply by selecting the desired "element," indicated by a clear red box as you hover within the interface, then selecting "Format" > "Page Break Before." I also loved that I could activate the print preview to check my progress along the way. And yes, they thankfully included an "Undo" button! Such a clever and useful tool, for which I am so grateful.
Works great, even without any instructions. At least for making a page print like it looks in a browser.
I Love it !!!!
Best, easiest extension I tried over the last several years. I use it to clean up pages to store locally for later reference. I have finally started using it for notation and highlighting of pages. I have changed the background color of some text and it shows the change on screen. However, when I preview the document the highlighting is removed.
Hi, I have a question: I want to make a specific type of change on a URL that I use frequently. Is there any way I can save a template of the text-changes that I want to make so that I can make those desired changes at the click of a button and then proceed to print the page?
Works very well! I especially appreciate the ability to add page-breaks. Only thing that could be added is to input the exact numbers into width/height under format, and under the context menu.
Works as advertised 👌
AMAAAAAAAAAAZING!! BEST ONE ON CHROME STORE
I've been using this for 5-10 years. This extension is really helpful. I can edit webpages for PDFs and printing. There are a few tiny bugs where I can't delete some objects, but for the most part, I'm ~99% happy with this.
AWESOME! Best way to remove all the JUNK from a WEBPAGE, for SIMPLE CLEAN PRINTABLE FORMAT!!!!
I was diverted to Google Keep extension, But I need, more control with format unchanged, even Microsoft immersive reader of Microsoft is also good alternative. But for few specific task can be done by this plugin, Thank you all the developer team, great going!
After I add the extension, the icon appears, but then disappears!?
awesome tool, hope to support more Format options, such as max-width, etc.
Great
Great
Muito boa a extensão, acredito que poderia adicionar a opção de copiar para área de transferência os elementos da página
Just love this extension. It helps me a lot to remove the unwanted add and others unwanted things to remove and make it professional. No need another PDF tool to edit. Thanks a lot to the developer.
Just love this extension. It helps me a lot to remove the unwanted add and others unwanted things to remove and make it professional. No need another PDF tool to edit. Thanks a lot to the developer.
Used to work like a charm, but has stopped responding a few months ago
Used to work like a charm, but has stopped responding a few months ago
распечатывает хорошо
I was looking for this type of extention. And this extention has full fill my requirments. Thanks a lot to the developer of this.
I was looking for this type of extention. And this extention has full fill my requirments. Thanks a lot to the developer of this.
Great extension!
Great extension!
The perfect one..We can delete those unwanted popup ads and other junks..Thanks to the developers.
The perfect one..We can delete those unwanted popup ads and other junks..Thanks to the developers.
This extension is amazingly complex but simple to use and enabled me to print the information I needed from a web page that was otherwise impossible to print properly. Awesome!!
This extension is amazingly complex but simple to use and enabled me to print the information I needed from a web page that was otherwise impossible to print properly. Awesome!!
omg超好用 牛
the best extension...it save me sooo much time :) thank you so much ...
the best extension...it save me sooo much time :) thank you so much ...
I love this extension, it is definitely the extension that I use the most. Print Edit WE is the essential extension everyone should be using. I have just the highest of praise and appreciation for this extension. That said, I'm disappointed that the "Advanced Options" button disappeared recently from the Preview mode. I use to be able to scale content on the page to ensure proper printing. Now the only available option remaining is to change the margins, setting custom margins. Loosing the scale feature is a huge loss that will impact the usefulness and performance of this great app. I appeal to the developers sensibility and compassion for their work to fix this issues as soon as possible please.
I love this extension, it is definitely the extension that I use the most. Print Edit WE is the essential extension everyone should be using. I have just the highest of praise and appreciation for this extension. That said, I'm disappointed that the "Advanced Options" button disappeared recently from the Preview mode. I use to be able to scale content on the page to ensure proper printing. Now the only available option remaining is to change the margins, setting custom margins. Loosing the scale feature is a huge loss that will impact the usefulness and performance of this great app. I appeal to the developers sensibility and compassion for their work to fix this issues as soon as possible please.
Came here after trying the extension "Print Friendly & PDF", which didn't work for the one-and-only site I wanted/tried it for. However, this app got the job done, just took a little more time and effort than I would've preferred.
Came here after trying the extension "Print Friendly & PDF", which didn't work for the one-and-only site I wanted/tried it for. However, this app got the job done, just took a little more time and effort than I would've preferred.
nice work, how to donat
nice work, how to donat
easy to use, but Chinese characters in printed PDFs can't be selected. I tried several browsers and the only exception is firefox
easy to use, but Chinese characters in printed PDFs can't be selected. I tried several browsers and the only exception is firefox
It only prints the first page. If you're printing out something like a job description, there will be more than one page's worth of text, but only the first one shows up in the print preview, and also when you hit Ctrl+P. There is an option to save the optimized page as an HTML document (maybe it's possible to print that?), but it only works if you have another extention by the same people.
It only prints the first page. If you're printing out something like a job description, there will be more than one page's worth of text, but only the first one shows up in the print preview, and also when you hit Ctrl+P. There is an option to save the optimized page as an HTML document (maybe it's possible to print that?), but it only works if you have another extention by the same people.
【web style】Option is invalid for a long time
Should have found this earlier.
Should have found this earlier.
