[Mediawiki-l] Printable Version?

[Nick Triantos]

Firefox, IE, and Opera all seem to have Print Preview capabilities, is 
that inadequate for your needs?

I'd personally prefer to not clutter up Monobook with things like a 
print icon or other text.

regards,
-Nick

JT.Thomas at VerizonWireless.com wrote:

>One thing to consider, 
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>I find that the 'printable view' is useful for things *other* than printing
>- i.e. screen captures. I find the omission of this function from the
>monobook skin to be regretable.
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>Of course admins and poweruser's can be informed to switch skins, but the
>casual user is unlikely to make the distinction. Of course the installation
>can be modified to use an alternate skin as the default - but monobook is
>*much more* attractive IMHO.
>
>Best Regards,
>
>JT
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>You said:
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>Date: Tue, 14 Sep 2004 20:06:02 +0100
>From: Rowan Collins <rowan.collins at gmail.com>
>Subject: Re: [Mediawiki-l] Printable Version?
>To: MediaWiki announcements and site admin list
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>Paul Johnson <baloo at ursine.dyndns.org> wrote:
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>>>OK, for my next dumb question ~
>>>Does anyone know what and how to hack my wiki to show a "printable
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>version"
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>>>option on my pages in monobook?
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>>I thought that was called the "classic" skin.  Am I wrong?
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>The Classic skin, I believe, had/has a link to a special "Print
>Version" of each article. The MonoBook skin, by using CSS, simply
>tells the browser to print the page differently than it displays it.
>This is of course rather more "magic" than most users expect...
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