Discover a Gem: Printer Friendly (and Create PDF) Feature

Patty T wrote: ” I love the ‘Print/PDF’ function on the Bonus Pages — makes life a lot easier. ”

With the continuing expansion of the KnitHeartStrings Site, it’s probably easy to overlook some of the newer (and possibly even the older) features besides the main Knit-A-Longs page. This is the next in series of Site Help articles to get the most from your KnitHeartStrings membership today and every day.

This week’s highlighted feature is Printer Friendly. Might you not realize it is available and could be missing out? The Print/PDF button icon for this feature is currently located in the right side-bar of the site just beneath “Search Posts…” and above “Recent Posts” (the location and exact look of the button could change in the future, but the important thing is that you know it is available and that it looks something like this below).

Clicking on the Print/PDF button launches a new window on top of your screen. From there, Printer Friendly gives you options to print with or without pictures, to enlarge text (or make text smaller to save ink), and even to create a pdf file (although it’s not necessarily “pretty” – but if that is the format you prefer for your iPad or whatever, it will do). Also you can email the article link to a friend. 

If you click to create a PDF of the article, the file will be downloaded wherever you have set as your default location on the electronic device you are using. Then you can read the article later from there whenever you want.

p.s. If you are on a Windows computer, you are more likely to find the Printer Friendly feature to be helpful. Those on Mac computers have the ability pretty much already built-in using the “Readability” Safari plug-in and “Print to PDF” function. Even if you are on a Mac, you might try the Printer Friendly feature though (since I offer it here, lol); it can give slightly different results and offer other options that you might prefer.