Rexit: Saving Project Pages

One way to do so is to visit each project in turn, then use your browser’s ability to “print” to a PDF (instead of printing hardcopies on your printer). Printing to a PDF means you can keep the electronic version of the page, which means you can do electronic searches, avoid storing paper versions, and save toner/ink. You can always print them some time in the future if desired.

Details

These instructions are for working on a computer. Doing a similar thing on the full variety of available mobile devices is beyond my knowledge, but the steps should be reasonably similar.

  1. Go to a project page.
  2. WAIT FOR ALL THE PICTURES TO FULLY LOAD. If you don’t, some will be cut off and/or completely missing from your PDF. You can scroll down the page to double-check that they are all showing.
  3. Use your computer’s keyboard shortcut to print a webpage. (It’s probably either Ctrl-p or Command-p).
  4. Select “PDF” as the destination. (If you don’t have that option, you can probably install an add-on for your browser to get it.)
  5. Pressing Enter will probably click the “Print” button. Otherwise, click the Print button via the mouse.
  6. A “Save As” dialog box should open up, where you can select the location that the PDF will be saved to and specify the file’s name.
    • When you save the very first project, navigate to the folder where you want to store the files. You can create a new folder somewhere if you like. This folder will be used for all subsequent files, so you only have to do this step once as long as you’re willing to put them all in one folder initially.
    • For speed, use the default file name.
  7. Press Enter to save the file.

For all the rest of your projects, you simply

  1. go to the project page
  2. WAIT FOR THE PICS TO LOAD
  3. press your keyboard shortcut for printing
  4. press Enter twice, (If pressing Enter doesn’t activate the Print button, click the Print button by hand, then press Enter to save with the default file name.)

When You’re Done

Once you’ve got all your project PDFs saved off, then you can rename the files if desired and move them around to different folders, should you want separate folders for cardigans, shawls, hats, baby stuff, whatever.

Using a single destination folder and the default file names during the saving process is simply for speed.

But What About the Pictures?

Note that all the links in the PDF will be live and clickable. Unfortunately, the pictures will not be links, so all they’ll ever be is the square thumbnails. If you don’t have the pics stored somewhere else, then if you want the originals, you’ll need to

  1. click on the picture to display the full-size version
  2. right-click on the popped-up image
  3. select a menu entry like “Save image”

You’ll have to repeat those three steps on each and every picture.

Note that when you uploaded the images, they were probably manipulated in some way to decrease the amount of storage space they used, and if so, they won’t be at the full resolution of whatever device you used to take them. That shouldn’t be a problem unless you really zoom in on them.

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