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HW15 -> "Printer Friendly" icon on webpage (4/9/2004 13:51:48)

I'm using FP2003 and wondered how to make "Printer Friendly" versions of each of my webpages. I've seen it done in yahoo's email and mapquest's maps. So, I would like to allow someone to click on a "Printer Friendly" icon and then print the page without all the excess stuff around the sides, top and bottom of the page.

Does anyone know how to do this? Do I just cut and paste the selected content onto a new page? Then I would have two of every page in my whole site!

Help please!



bobby -> RE: "Printer Friendly" icon on webpage (4/9/2004 14:22:26)

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Does anyone know how to do this? Do I just cut and paste the selected content onto a new page? Then I would have two of every page in my whole site!

That's the only way to do it without scripting... AFAIK

I've done this with ASP pages generated from a database, which makes it a little easier since you can drop the content into the page dynamically from the DB (just without all the images and fanciness of the page template)



HW15 -> RE: "Printer Friendly" icon on webpage (4/14/2004 14:48:53)

Okay, I was afraid of that. Thanks for the response.

Also, how do you make the "Printer Friendly" icon link to the new page AND automatically open the printer window at the same time? I've seen some sites that do this.



d a v e -> RE: "Printer Friendly" icon on webpage (4/14/2004 15:22:46)

you could make a print style sheet and hide images and other bits in that version of the sheet. no scripting involved :)
see http://www.alistapart.com/articles/goingtoprint/



ellipisces -> RE: "Printer Friendly" icon on webpage (4/15/2004 1:11:31)

I do it with PHP print. Super easy, only one version of each page, and print perfectly every single time...

google it, PHPPrint

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