Cleanup web pages before printing in Safari

Sep 17, '10 07:30:00AM

Contributed by: solitario

Safari 5 introduced the Safari Reader to allow for great reading and printing of web pages by removing a lot of the clutter you wouldn't want to have in the printed copy. Unfortunately, Safari Reader is not available on all pages, but only those it recognizes as 'articles.' [crarko adds: And Readability is still available for other browsers.]

This hint shows you how you can get rid of those items and save a clean version on pages where Reader is not an option.

For this hint you need to have the Development options active. In Safari 5's Preferences go to the Advanced setting and click 'Show Develop menu in menu bar.'



[crarko adds: I tested this on a simple page, and it worked. I can see this getting really tedious on complex pages, but if Reader is not available this is an option if you really don't want the extra stuff around when printing.]

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