Printer Friendly Articles?

[mhurley]

I just printed out a couple articles (hit print and walked away) and after spitting out 40 pages of paper, I realized they are not printer friendly, the right 1" or so is cut off.
Is there a way to get printer friendly ones out there? I travel a bit and like to take some plane reading with me.

Thanks!!

 

[MiddletonMark]

Mike, at the bottom of every page is a `show printable version' down near `subscribe to this thread'.
It alters the format to make it work better on printers ... you can even get those giant threads all on one page . I prefer to copy/paste into Word to minimize my margins, get the text a little smaller, and waste less paper ... but you can print straight of IE if you have the `print version'.

Hope it helps.

 

[MiddletonMark]

ugh, third time it `double posted' me in a row.

 

[mhurley]

Mark

I'm talking about Reefkeeping Magazine and unless I'm blind, there is no button like that.

 

[Skipper]

Try highlighting just the text and printing just the selected area.

 

[MiddletonMark]

I'm talking about Reefkeeping Magazine

No, I'm the blind one

Agreed, that's the only negative comment about the magazine [other than it's not a weekly!].

I think it's about the same as printing off RC pages ... at least so my experience is. Wonder if we could get greg or some other wizard to have a similar `printable version' button.

 

[mhurley]

Try highlighting just the text and printing just the selected area.

Nope...doesn't work. I even tried it again and changed the margins from the standard .75" down to .5" on the right and left and it made no difference.

 

[MiddletonMark]

I've had mixed luck copying and pasting into Word. Works sometimes [and makes it printable].

Else you just have to do as I've done and waste a lot of paper [printing landscape mode] ... as that WILL `work'.

 

[mhurley]

No...I want Greg to get off his butt and add the printer friendly button.



Now I'll go sit quietly until I get banned.

 

[Skipper]

I believe if you have Acrobat you can transfer the file to that format and then print it.

 

[mhurley]

I have acrobat reader (as I'm sure many do), but don't have Acrobat.

Do you know if it's a big deal to add that "Printer Friendly" link to the article? I thought it was just canned code to reformat the page...I could be wrong...

 

[Skipper]

Honestly, I don't know, Mike. We talked long ago about offering the magazine in an Acrobat version too, but that is on hold for the moment.

 

[mhurley]

ok...thanks!! I'll try the Word copy/paste thing for now...Just a thought on a future enhancement.

 

[MiddletonMark]

Skipper -

Please take both of our interests in this as respect for the great stuff you got in there :thumbsup:

Hope your frags from IMAC are doing well, was great to meet you

 

[Skipper]

Thanks, Mark. Yeah, nice meeting you too. All the frags are doing well.

 

[mhurley]

Oh yea...Great stuff...Just want to print out like 15 articles from past issues to read on a flight to Atlanta tomorrow.

Thanks SKipper!

 

[Skipper]

Try printing with the new beta of IE7. It works wonderfully.

 

[Billybeau1]

Uh....... your a little late Skipper. I think he took his flight already.



And a few more I'm sure. :lol:

 

[Skipper]

Yeah, but I'm sure he'll take another flight...