Printer Friendly Version Of Page

J

JaySwan

I've been tasked with taking our existing printer friendly functionally
(separate *.html page with no navigation, just text) and changing it to look
directly at the original *.hml page, which is a press relase, and read only
the text that makes up the press release and open that in a new window for
the user to print from.

Basically, a dynamic printer friendly page based on an original page that
has all the navigation and grapics NOT wanted in a printer friendly page.

Any ideas on how best to accomplish would be great...

TIA

Jay Swan
 
C

Chris Leeds, MVP-FrontPage

IMHO,
the easiest way to do it is using .css to format the page for print.
If you take a look at www.contentseed.com and hit file/ print preview you'll
see that it's totally different, even the header graphic has changed, plus
the navigation is dropped etc.

there's a good article called "going to print" at www.alistapart.com that
goes into it in depth.

HTH

--
Chris Leeds,
Microsoft MVP-FrontPage

Make More Money with Less Work
Let Your Clients Control Their Content With Just A Browser!
http://contentseed.com/
 
J

JaySwan

Thanks Chris, I'm and running...
Jay

Chris Leeds said:
IMHO,
the easiest way to do it is using .css to format the page for print.
If you take a look at www.contentseed.com and hit file/ print preview you'll
see that it's totally different, even the header graphic has changed, plus
the navigation is dropped etc.

there's a good article called "going to print" at www.alistapart.com that
goes into it in depth.

HTH

--
Chris Leeds,
Microsoft MVP-FrontPage

Make More Money with Less Work
Let Your Clients Control Their Content With Just A Browser!
http://contentseed.com/
Click to expand...
 
C

Chris Leeds, MVP-FrontPage

If you need further assistance you know where to go. ;-)

--
Chris Leeds,
Microsoft MVP-FrontPage

Make More Money with Less Work
Let Your Clients Control Their Content With Just A Browser!
http://contentseed.com/
--
 
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Stefan B Rusynko

IMHO
I would do the reverse
Put your press release text only (printer friendly) in a page for use as a popup to print
Then in your rich page w/ all graphics and navigation, etc. just include the printer friendly page as an Include page were that text
was




| I've been tasked with taking our existing printer friendly functionally
| (separate *.html page with no navigation, just text) and changing it to look
| directly at the original *.hml page, which is a press relase, and read only
| the text that makes up the press release and open that in a new window for
| the user to print from.
|
| Basically, a dynamic printer friendly page based on an original page that
| has all the navigation and grapics NOT wanted in a printer friendly page.
|
| Any ideas on how best to accomplish would be great...
|
| TIA
|
| Jay Swan
 
C

Chris Leeds, MVP-FrontPage

I'd thought about that too! I was also thinking; since the include page
function only grabs what's between the body tags you could add the print()
function to the body tag's onload event, so when someone clicks it printing
would begin automatically.

--
Chris Leeds,
Microsoft MVP-FrontPage

Make More Money with Less Work
Let Your Clients Control Their Content With Just A Browser!
http://contentseed.com/
--
Stefan B Rusynko said:
IMHO
I would do the reverse
Put your press release text only (printer friendly) in a page for use as a popup to print
Then in your rich page w/ all graphics and navigation, etc. just include
Click to expand...
the printer friendly page as an Include page were that text
 

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