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Printer friendly? (easy question)
Posted: Mon Jul 21, 2003 1:33 pm
by Coco
ok i managed to find this:
viewtopic.php?t=7391
so now i know
how to print a page...
but you see so often, 'printer friendly' pages
what is this? is it a set format/command? or is it just stuffing everything in a table with max width?
Posted: Mon Jul 21, 2003 5:47 pm
by m@ndio
I don't think there is a command for it... yea just use a different include file for the printer friendly pages or something...
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Posted: Mon Jul 21, 2003 8:11 pm
by kettle_drum
Printer friendly files just tend to mean they only include text and black and white, so that all printers can print them easily.
Posted: Tue Jul 22, 2003 6:25 am
by nielsene
The "best practices" way to generate these nowadays is to include a media="print" stylesheet than can hide navigation bars and parts of the header and footer; as well as resetting fonts and margins for print instead of screen.
http://www.alistapart.com has a very good article on this. When you use this method you don't have to maintain two seperate versions of the page as used to be done.