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Get Rid of Ads Before Saving Website as PDF


I use these instructions to get rid of pesky ads on websites with knitting and crochet patterns before I save the page as a PDF or print it. But you could use this for any website. I suggest you first save it as a PDF then print it out later. (If you need to print it out.)

The usual story for a knitter or crafter? We find a wonderful pattern only discover it is littered with ads all over the place. To print out the page would be to print out so many ads as well. 
I will be honest and say I haven't checked to see if the other internet browsers have this available so this post is specifically for the Chrome browser. 
In your Chrome browser, go get the extension "Print Friendly & PDF"

(Check out www.printfriendly.com as they may have extensions for other browsers.)

Install it the Chrome extension.

To try it out, you can use this page that has both a pattern and ads within it:

Once you are on that page, in the top right corner you will see a green icon that looks like a printer.
Click on it. Then this below will pop up.


On top of this pop-up, the second button from the left is the button called "PDF". Click on it.

It will then give you this pop-up.



Click on the green button "Download Your PDF".

It will then try to open it as a PDF in WHATEVER software you already have set as your default PDF software. My PDF software default is Adobe Acrobat.

Once it opens it up as a PDF in your default software, do a "Save As" of the PDF and save it in a location like your Desktop where you can easily find it.

Sometimes it will strip all ads and sometimes it will leave a few. It honestly depends on the back-end code of the website. If you look closely and compare the final PDF with the actual website, you will see it did strip it of a great deal of stuff to make the pattern more readable. So this is definitely a worthwhile process to go through.

Hope this helps!

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