Chrome Extension for Improving Printed Version of Popular Online Websites

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1.1.0
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December 23, 2020
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Rating
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Manifest Version
2
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Fine Print Extension

Most websites do not have a good printable PDF version.
In other words, when you try to print their pages, they have images that are cut between two pages. In addition, some websites show their footers, sidebars, or even ads in their PDF printable versions.
This chrome extension makes the printable versions of those PDFs much nicer for popular websites.
In addition, it is open sourced for people to be able to contribute to making other websites they frequently print or save as PDF much nicer.

All you have to do is install the extension, and it will make supported websites look better when being printed, automatically. ( ;

So if a website is supported, its Print Preview will look better than usual!
If it isn't supported, and you'd like us to support it; kindly check the GitHub link in the bottom to raise an Issue requesting a website to be supported!

Currently Supported Websites:
- Medium websites

If you wish to contribute, kindly go to :
https://github.com/nizarmah/fineprint

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Source Manifest.json

{"update_url": "https://clients2.google.com/service/update2/crx", "manifest_version": 2, "name": "Fine Print", "short_name": "Fine Print", "description": "Chrome Extension for Improving Printed Version of Popular Online Websites", "version": "1.1.0", "icons": { "128": "icon/default.png" }, "background": { "scripts": [ "validator.js", "page_rules.js", "background.js" ], "persistent": false }, "web_accessible_resources": [ "css/*" ], "content_scripts": [ { "run_at": "document_end", "matches": [ "" ], "js": [ "injector.js" ] } ], "permissions": []}
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How to download and manually install Fine Print extension for Chrome

Looking for a way to install Fine Print extensions for Chrome, you can search for them in the Chrome Web Store, clicking the "Add to Chrome" button, and following the straightforward process.

However, you may need to install Fine Print extensions manually, this article outlines two simple methods to effortlessly install Fine Print extensions, whether they come as unpacked folders in compressed formats like .zip or as .crx files.

Method 1: Download Fine Print extension and manually install through Drag &Drop

If you ever need to manually install a Fine Print extension for Chrome, don't worry, it's a simple process. Just follow these easy steps, and you will have your extension ready to use in no time.

Step 1: Download the Fine Print Extension by clicking the "Download CRX" button on the website.

Look for the Fine Print extension you wish to install. Go to the website and download the Fine Print extension package, which is usually a .CRX file and comes in a zipped file. Here ".crx" file is the format for Fine Print extension that contains all the data.

Step 2: Extract &Arrange Files

Once the file is downloaded, extract that file into its own folder. Similarly, give that extension files a permanent home. In other words, keep it in a folder that you don't accidentally delete it because these files will be needed to make that extension work.

Step 3: Go to the Chrome Extensions Page

Open Google Chrome and in the address bar, type chrome://extensions; it will open the Google Chrome extensions page. Make sure that "My extensions" is selected in the sidebar.

Step 4: Drag and Drop the Extension

Now, go to the folder where you extracted the Fine Print extension and drag &drop the extension file from there anywhere onto the extension page within Google Chrome.

Step 5: Complete the Installation

Once you drag and drop the extension file, follow the steps that Google Chrome takes you through. Similarly, if the extension file is of .crx file format, you will be required to review the permissions and then add the extension.

Now, you can manage that added extension as you would like to with any other Chrome extension that you added through Chrome Webstore. Its icon will also appear in the Google Chrome Menu on the right side of the address bar once you activate it.

Method 2: Download Fine Print extension for Chrome and install in Developer Mode

This is another method to install Fine Print extension manually, but the twist is that here, you install by enabling the developer mode option provided in Google Chrome. This mode is commonly used for testing extensions or running unpublished tools.

Step 1: Download the Fine Print extension file

Select and download the Fine Print extension by clicking the 'Download CRX' button on the website.

Step 2: Extract the downloaded contents

Convert the file to a ZIP file if it is in CRX format then extract the Fine Print extension zip file or folder that you downloaded. Make sure you extract it using the same folder name and keep it safely in another folder, so you don't delete it by mistake. The extracted folder will be needed to keep your Fine Print extension running.

Step 3: Open Chrome Extension Setting Page

In the address bar of Google Chrome, type chrome://extensions and open the Chrome Extension Page.

Step 4: Enable Developer Mode

After opening the Chrome Extension page, look at the top right side, and you will find the toggle option of "Developer mode."Simply enable that developer mode option.

Step 5: Load the Unpacked Extension

Once you enable the developer mode option, you will see the menu of Load Unpacked, Pack Extensions and Update. From that, select the option "Load unpacked."

Step 6: Select the Extension Folder

Once the pop-up opens upon clicking Load unpacked, select the Fine Print extension directory and click on the "Select Folder "button.

Step 7: Confirm and Install

After you select an extension folder of a Google Chrome extension you're installing manually, confirm its installation for the final time and let the installation complete.

Conclusion

Here we've made a step-by-step guide on How to manually install Fine Print extension in 2 ways. We hope this guide proves helpful.

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User reviews

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Dr.Ne0Gen3tic (Forensic Buro of Quantum) (ID: 000000804fbaeac1) Voted 5 ★ - Updated 11/17/2022 This really amazing little tool, improves printing to PDF really a lot, thank you for such great programming work! It's a simple, but still a really great programmed tool, which really works great, so I'm really excited, sometimes it doesn't work right away, you have to reload the page more often and restart printing more often, they could work on that a little bit more! Edit 2022 Nov.17 _________________ You should use this really great tool (it is such a great tool!). Excellent, classified, and genetically programmed! Maybe once for "universal" programming. I mean that it scales any web page "all in one," namely so that the perfect layout is always guaranteed! I'm sick and tired of many web pages not having a print layout button and a "Print Now!" button that simply sends a layout to the PDF printer! Is there no "layout API" that you can "control"? It's extremely annoying!  I want a tool, preferably with artificial intelligence, that meticulously calculates the exact layout! That must be possible; otherwise, it is not possible with static programming. In an emergency, static programming must hold out, but a dynamic AI model would be preferable to me! It must be possible to calculate the IFrames reasonably. So a tool that reads the HTML source code and calculates, on the basis of the source code (iFrames and boxes, etc.), how the layout can be scaled reasonably and best!  I mean, Google creates it per artificial intelligence, per "computer CPU chips," perfectly cut to size, automatically per "AI," and I want to know that it should not be possible here with a Pipifax HTML code to calculate the best and perfect scaling?  This is the biggest joke! Oh, Lord, please, I beg you! Can they, with their soft, lovely, precious fingers, in their fervor, strike the keyboard and press the keys to write on virtual parchment the precious pixel fonts to create a technologically valuable product? That would be lovely, tender, and love-spiced, oh, Lord! Greetings from Germany!

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Victoria Besarab (ID: 000000128c32837d) Voted 1 ★ - Updated 09/27/2022 it doesnt work. The pictures and some portions of text still have 1 half on 1 page, the other half on other.