Is printing anti-web 2.0?
Anybody noticed how printer unfriendly most blogs are? I wonder if there is a meaning to this. I spend a great deal of time reading blogs online but, typically, right before leaving the office, I print a bunch of articles and posts that i either received through email or bookmarked to my toread tag. It's my metro reading. The problem is that 9 times out of 10 printing a blog post is actually impossible. Tonight, for example, I wanted to print this post from Jarvis who, ironically, has printing presses as a header image. I hit print and not only did it chop off a bunch of text but it also printed all the comments (13 pages total). Frustrating. I had to resort to printing some clickz newsletters who, very smartly, provides a "print this article" link right on top of the emails header. oh well.I am using wordpress and am sure there is a module to render printer friendly pages, just like drupal. I will install it soon. Hopefully, users can chose to print the post, the latest posts or post with comments.
personomies, printing, clickz, jeff jarvis
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thanks Jeff. will do that
thanks Jeff. will do that from now on.
It's one thing I can't do on
It's one thing I can't do on mac, but on windows, you can select text and print selected. I miss that.
Thanks. I installed the
Thanks. I installed the extension. Still does not beat the old printer friendly page though ;)
Sucks, doesn't it? I use two
Sucks, doesn't it?
I use two main tools -- copy/paste into a word template (2-columns, nice margins, page numbers). Sometimes that can take too much time.
The easier solution is a nify Firefox extension called Aardvark (http://karmatics.com/aardvark/). It allows you to selectively isolate or remove sections of a page. To print I will typically do the
following:
* right-click and select "Start Aardvark" from the context menu
* hit "w" (wider) repeatedly to make the selected text larger until I have the full post (or post and comments)
* hit "i" (isolate) to show just the selected part
* hit "d" (de-widthify) if necessary to remove fixed width parameters
* hit "q" to quit aardvark (because it will print the aardvark stuff if you don't)
* print
This souds like a lot of steps but it actually is quite easy and fast. The Aardvark page allows you to try this out without actually installing the extension -- of course, you'll still need to be using Firefox.
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