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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