Edit web pages prior to printing. Delete, hide and format elements. Edit text. Remove adverts and sidebars.
CHANGES
Version 26.5
• When using 'Save As MHTML' the default file extension is now '.mhtml' instead of '.txt'.
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 > Print Edit 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.
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 elements or all graphic 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.
• 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 relative position and size.
• Without Float - higher level elements retain their relative position and size, but cannot float right.
• Unrestricted - higher level elements can reposition and resize 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
- (2023-09-21) Mures Lamasanu: Great
- (2023-08-03) Marlon J. Souza: Muito boa a extensão, acredito que poderia adicionar a opção de copiar para área de transferência os elementos da página
- (2023-05-22) Mohammad Adnan Hossain: 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.
- (2023-05-01) Helene O.: Used to work like a charm, but has stopped responding a few months ago
- (2023-03-12) Влад имир: распечатывает хорошо
- (2022-12-09) Kamrul Islam: I was looking for this type of extention. And this extention has full fill my requirments. Thanks a lot to the developer of this.
- (2022-11-09) Taha: Great extension!
- (2022-10-29) JBN CHRY: The perfect one..We can delete those unwanted popup ads and other junks..Thanks to the developers.
- (2022-10-22) Mike Lerley: 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!!
- (2022-09-20) CA HILL: omg超好用 牛
- (2022-05-24) MUAADH: the best extension...it save me sooo much time :) thank you so much ...
- (2022-04-08) Blikoor: 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.
- (2022-03-22) Aaron: 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.
- (2022-03-18) Worried1467 Xl: nice work, how to donat
- (2022-03-06) Ember: easy to use, but Chinese characters in printed PDFs can't be selected. I tried several browsers and the only exception is firefox
- (2022-02-19) Inactive Account: 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.
- (2021-10-29) 【web style】Option is invalid for a long time
- (2021-10-03) Ming Thai Lee (Martin): Should have found this earlier.
- (2021-09-29) Cfguy100 _: I love this extension - use it every day, multiple times a day. Have been having problems lately with the top Print Edit WE menu disappearing after I have already highlighted items on the web page to keep of delete, and then it will not give me the option to preview to print, save, or make any further changes, as there is no longer any Print Edit WE menu at the top. I have the latest version of Chrome (Version 94.0.4606.61 (Official Build) (64-bit)) and have also tried uninstalling and re-installing the Print Edit WE app, but I still have the same problem. Have also tried closing Chrome and re-opening a new session, but the same problem occurs. Would really like a solution as I am finding it difficult to be without this app. Any ideas or advice would be appreciated. Thanks.
- (2021-09-28) Anil Vithal: Finally found a great plugin that just works! Thanks.
- (2021-08-22) خالد ابراهيم: khaled ebrahem essen mpsa
- (2021-08-18) _ Vogelmann_: Works fine, as expected. But I consider it as pretty annoying, that many Chrome extensions still come with a context-menu where an option to disable this context entry is missing. If you have installed 30+ extensions (like me), your context-menu becomes more and more cluttered with options you probably never need. It costs valuable time to navigate to the few extra menus you really use. Hope that Chrome developers (like Firefox dev's) recognize the problem in the near future.
- (2021-06-30) Mahafuzur Rahaman Sr. Officer: Awesome, I love it.
- (2021-03-15) Ben Zhang: 非常好用
- (2021-03-07) Nate Schley: I think the app is written well. The problem is the complexity of the content that we want to simplify. I use it often, but modern web pages are so complex, I find it hard to use effectively & efficiently. One needs to be proficient with HTML to drill through the incessant layers of DIVs-of-DIVs, tables-within-tables, frames-within-frames that authors (authoring SW) use to construct pages.
- (2021-02-28) mark intermark: THE BEST PRINTING / SAVING TO PDF TOOL I AM USING FOR A LONG, LONG TIME!!!
- (2021-02-26) Nicole: I use this app all the time to save digital copies of recipes, receipts, and invoices.
- (2021-01-30) Marco Kuang: It's extremely powerful to remove **ANY** unwanted contents and to fix the layout for printing. Highly recommended.
- (2021-01-29) Alex D: Amazing stuff! Just try and be cool ^^ Thanks to developer!
- (2021-01-29) Fred G Husby: The best webpage to pdf out there! I have tried almost all "html2pdf" etc. versions over many years. Print Edit WE is the best. It demands a little bit of work compared to PrintFriendly & PDF, but the results are much better. The only "negative" I can say, is that it seems to hang after issuing PREVIEW, but it might have to do with something else, full cache etc. Try it. You will be surprised how easy it is to use after som trial and error!
- (2021-01-05) Husky Chien: 非常好用
- (2020-12-17) Mohamed Abdelhalim: I used another extension for years and couldn't print one specific website, that drove me crazy because that was the most important website to me lol. I tried a lot of other extension and none of them worked on my website. until I found "Print Edit WE". I believe this is the best extension to edit html page on the fly and print it or save it. thanks a lot to the awesome developers who worked on this extension.
- (2020-12-09) Chad Brosseau: Unfortunately, this did not work for me on Chrome Version 87.0.4280.88. It looks like a promising extension, but any element selection I made didn't stick when using the Preview button- same System print page preview dialogue shows up just as if the extension was not installed.
- (2020-12-03) Matt Splat: AMAZING!! I love that you can delete so many elements from a page before printing - like deleting advertising and paragraphs and images that you might not want. SUGGESTIONS: 1) Sometimes, at a page break, the text is a bit corrupted. 2) It would be even more super awesome if you could resize the photos (so that extra large images would only be saved as smaller ones) Overall, love it! Thank you.
- (2020-12-03) Marcel Izgin: Great tool. Is there a way to save patterns or macros? E.g. on a certain page that I need to print quite often, there are exactly 2 elements that I always want to print, the rest can be removed. It's a bit cumbersome to do that manually for every single print.
- (2020-11-28) Amous Frank: broken on 87.0.4280.66 (64bit) Uncaught ReferenceError: selectIndex is not defined at resumeEditing (content.js:1183) at startEditing (content.js:1148) at content.js:913
- (2020-11-28) Volodymyr Ye.: после обновления до версии 27.5 расширение перестало работать... появляется на значке слово Suspended и не возможно редактировать
- (2020-08-18) CFguy _: This is my favorite and most used (multiple times, daily) Chrome extension, Having said that, I have been frustrated in some problems I have been having with the extension. While I am grateful that the "Save to MHTML" option has been fixed and is working very good, now when I try saving as "HTML", the extension "hangs" for a long time (as compared to before) but does finally create a "HTML" document- but sometimes I grow so frustrated waiting, I will go in and cancel the command (this feature seemed to be working fine though, as recently as just a few days ago). For the developer- you have an outstanding extension and resource for Chrome users (IMHO, the *BEST*) - please see if you can fix the "Save to HTML" function, so that it no longer takes so long. Everything else is perfection, and IMHO "genius programming and developing" on the part of its developer. Thanks. ---Update to my previous review - Just tried extension again and now "Save to MHTML" is much quicker than "Save to HTML" (which is still "hanging" too long, on my system. "Save to MHTML" is now instantaneous though, and "Save to HTML" used to be, as well. In any case, I am sure developer will figure out a "fix", the way they did for the once problematic "Save to MHTML". Thanks.
- (2020-08-18) Mah: Awesome and easy to use!
- (2020-07-18) Soichi Oikawa: Microsoft Edgeの「印刷をすっきり」がなくなって、代わりになるものを探して見つけたのですが、この拡張機能は素晴らしいです!
- (2020-07-13) Hern Chen: I used to Print Friendly & PDF for web page printing. Print Friendly is more automatic/simple but it seem to messed up quite often. Print Edit WE is a lot of more flexible/powerful and gives you complete control on what to print or not to print. I found myself using Print Edit WE more often.
- (2020-04-07) Suresh Kamble: did not at all ,
- (2020-03-25) Joel Miedema: A simply superb tool - once you get used to having it available you'll never want to go without it! Very powerful feature set for choosing exactly what and how to display the page content before printing or generating true vector PDFs. I love this extension and have been using it happily for months!
- (2020-03-13) chen pen: the best one
- (2020-02-22) Ran Masumi: 領収書印刷に活用させて頂いています。 不要な部分の削除などでき、大変便利なのですが、自分で日付やメモを入力する際、 テキスト入力を任意のサイズで指定で決めようになると更に助かります。
- (2020-02-21) master: 赞! 真的超好用!
- (2020-02-13) Manivan Mx1: One of the very few, time tested, truly awesome browser extensions of all times. Its included in my essential "MxChrome" pack. So many usages.. Great job.
- (2020-01-27) Samantha Dzirko: I use this extension to save ink and paper when printing articles and recipes. It's also great for removing ads and unwanted photos when you want to save a .pdf copy of a webpage. Works great!
- (2019-12-30) java mochafrap: Does a good job of printing what i need and blocking/ deleting what i dont need. Saves ink.
- (2019-12-21) Rahul Varshney: others don't work , this did. great for editing gmails. first click print all, then exit out of the print dialog box, then click print-edit-we extension
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Rating
4.4281 (313 votes)
Last update / version
2023-09-04 / 31.3
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