That said, the automagic printable version does seem to
be incredibly
non-intuitive to people. Unfortunately, I can't think of a convenient
way of saying "contrary to what you might think, this page will look
OK printed" other than implying the exact opposite (with a "printable
version" link or somesuch). I believe last time this was mentioned,
there were suggestions of having a javascript "Print" or "Print
preview" link somewhere, which might give the right impression, but no
decent implementation was found (especially the latter seems to have
no easy solution). Anybody fancy trying to take this idea any further?
I like to put a 'Printable Version' link on pages even if they actually
will print exactly as the normal pages. Usually I use the same URL for
the current page and just add ?print to the end. The only difference
usually is that I use a little Javascript to pop up a print dialog box
automaticlly for the print version. Sometimes I do make minor template
changes for the printable versions too. If I think I want to change
things that might be harder to do with just CSS.
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Michael <mogmios(a)mlug.missouri.edu>
http://kavlon.org