Accessibility of Links for Printouts

To save my time, I usually read various articles, essays, documentations and other texts about computer game development in public transport. To read paper printouts is the most convenient way for me, because I waste my eyes at computer screen the rest time of my day. The largest problem of the printouts is that the URLs of the links are invisible on the printed paper. And I save the sources of the articles very rarely.

To solve that problem, I wrote a bookmarklet (favelet), which is made shared with you. When you activate it, all the links of the opened page will be supplemented with indexes [URL #X], where X will be the number of the link; and a list of indexes together with the appropriate web addresses is footnoted in the page. Just get it and try yourself.

Listing out the URLs

Do it so: grab the button URL List with a mouse and drag it to the bookmarks bar. That’s it. You have a bookmarklet. Now, while being in any website, you can click on the newly created bookmarklet and the page will be prepared for printing, writing down the list of all URLs in the bottom of the page.

Why are you pouting? Are you still using Internet Explorer? No problem. Press the right mouse button above the button “URL List”, choose “Add to Favorites” in the popup menu, and add the link of the button into the Links folder in your favourites. That’s it. You have a favelet.

Bon appétit!

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One Response to “Accessibility of Links for Printouts”

  1. Archatas says:

    AListApart has also a similar solution that was posted to me by my buddy Vytenis after publishing my Lithuanian entry about the created bookmarklet:
    http://www.alistapart.com/articles/improvingprint/

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