How To Print Guides

This page details how you can print off a copy of a guide on TweakGuides for easy offline reference:

-> Just send each page to your printer!

As soon as you send a page to your printer from the browser, it will automatically reformat to print as a full page of text without any of the additional style or ad elements. Of course this requires that you go to each page of the guide to print it, however this is the easiest solution I can implement. Thanks to users for providing feedback and to Andrew Penry for his help with this.

Update: Images are now included when pages are printed.

Hyperlinks/URLs: For readers using Internet Explorer, URLs in the guides will not be printed. However for users of Firefox, you'll see that each hyperlink URL is reproduced in full next to the hyperlink text. This functionality is unfortunately not supported in the current version of Internet Explorer.

Guide Updates: All my guides are constantly being updated/maintained to contain the latest and most accurate information. Changes are regularly made throughout my guides, ranging from fixing simple typos through to adjusting the descriptions of tweaks or settings and adding new tweaks as feedback from users is received and new patches come out. Even if you've printed a full version of the guide, make sure to check back regularly for updates to guides.

Downloadable Versions

Users have requested downloadable versions of the guides (e.g. in PDF, DOC or TXT format), or one large printable version. Aside from my TweakGuides Tweaking Companion I currently cannot provide such versions for several reasons:

Bandwidth: Bandwidth costs money. Given I easily get around 700,000+ individual users who read my guides in any given month, hosting downloadable versions of guides on the site would result in a massive increase in bandwidth, with each guide being at least 1MB-2MB or more. Plus of course people would have to download each guide several times as they are regularly updated. Not to mention other sites would link directly to the downloable file meaning even more people would download the file without ever visiting my site. The free edition of the TweakGuides Tweaking Companion alone already accounts for over 100GB of data transfer every month just by itself, so any more downloadable tweak guides would result in excessive costs to me, as well as effectively making TweakGuides.com just one big file server.

Traffic: It's simple - if my site doesn't get traffic, it will die. I need people to visit the site often, to see the new content and read about upcoming projects, and to provide feedback. Downloadable and large one-page printable guides mean less direct traffic, fewer page views and hence the ultimate demise of my site. All sites on the internet require people to visit them often - it's just a fact of life on the web.

Revenue: I need people to visit my site to provide some revenue so I can pay for site costs and provide me some income to live on. Without any revenue, I cannot keep investing so much time into this site, and I will eventually have to return to writing for commercial websites. I have already knocked back offers from large gaming sites which want me to write for them. Writing for such sites would reduce my independence and ultimately commercialise my guide contents. This is something which I want to steer clear of - that's why I run my own site: so I can provide impartial and accurate information.

So the bottom line is that unless I get a generous site sponsor then I am bound by the way the internet works - to attract more direct view traffic to the site. This keeps the content free to you, it keeps it independent, it gives me motivation to spend many, many hours researching and writing the guides and it means the quality of my guides are the best they can be.

If you experience any odd glitches or notice missing text in the printed versions of guide pages, Email Me and let me know which page(s) of which particular guide shows the problem, and which browser you are using, and I will fix it straight away!