andy206uk — Tue, 09 Dec 2003 13:24:55 +0000

I believe there are plenty of perl and php scripts available that will strip a page of any non text content and leave you with a printer freindly page.

Try here:

http://www.hotscripts.com/CGI_and_Perl/Scripts_and_Programs/Content_Management/more3.html

cordedpoodle — Fri, 05 Dec 2003 05:18:39 +0000

Suzanne,

I'm ending up doing it over completely. I learned enough from the links to do a quick and dirty version. So far it's been working fine.

I'm actually having fun. This is more like quark in a way. Think I'm hooked on it.

Thanks for the help.

Suzanne — Mon, 01 Dec 2003 23:43:15 +0000

... did you read the article?

The problem is that you can't create a simple print version with stylesheets if you don't create the site with stylesheets in mind. Both require expertise that is much different from table-based development.

Using a server-side solution to choose the stylesheet isn't unique, nor does it alleviate the need for the site to be stylesheet-compatible in the first place.

cordedpoodle — Mon, 01 Dec 2003 21:43:07 +0000

Here's a very interesting solution:

http://www.richdoughty.net/

cordedpoodle — Mon, 01 Dec 2003 21:41:50 +0000

Thanks you guys. This is a problem you'd think everyone would have come up against. But I've looked around and very few sites print on iExp on windows correctly.

Suzanne — Mon, 01 Dec 2003 15:43:09 +0000

http://www.alistapart.com/articles/goingtoprint/ will help, I hope!

Renegade — Mon, 01 Dec 2003 09:54:22 +0000

What I do is put as much as I can into classess, ID and stuff and make different stylesheets for it.

I do that for all of my sites, a perfect example would be NetHelp

cordedpoodle — Mon, 01 Dec 2003 07:11:22 +0000

Renegade wrote: Sounds to me like you need to redo most of the site using CSS and make a print stylesheet.

I'm trying to find out how to do this now. Can you give me some hints?

Renegade — Sat, 22 Nov 2003 01:57:07 +0000

Sounds to me like you need to redo most of the site using CSS and make a print stylesheet.

On a side note: Are you getting paid by the hour? If you are then its the clients loss...if not then...:S

cordedpoodle — Fri, 21 Nov 2003 23:58:13 +0000

No I didn't use CSS to set the table sizes.