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I think that Print link to open popup window with printable
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HTML version of page is very useful thing, so I would like
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to have it in my ikiwiki :)
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Probably it's better to generate a page on the fly as a CGI
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(just the same like for RecentChanges page) when a user
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really needs it, instead to build static printable version
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for all ikiwiki pages. --Pawel
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> I've always considered print links to be a sign of a badly designed web
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> site that looks ugly in a printer because it's ugly anywhere, so I may
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> take some convinving. :-) Ikiwiki pages seem like they'd print out ok
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> as-is to me.
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>> ikiwiki home pages are plain and clean, but please note that some
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>> ikiwiki users can have their wiki with banners and navbars and a lot
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>> of graphics.
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> (I also often click on print links, just to get a web page that I can
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> read, especially often hoping that it will have the whole article on it,
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> instead of the 99 tiny pagelets nasty websites like to split things into.
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> Have I ever mentioned how much I *hate* the web?)
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>> I always print all interested articles for me, because I hate reading
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>> them from a display monitor. It's too painful for my eyes. And I want
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>> to print only article *body* without all wrappers, because I don't
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>> need them.
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> One option, if your stylesheet contained something that was unpalatable
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> in printing, would be to define an alternate stylesheet optimised for
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> printing, and somehow switch the browser to use that stylesheet when
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> printing a page (it can be switched from a menu in the UI of some
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> browsers, but I'm not sure what a good way would be to switch the
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> stylesheet on the fly without re-rendering the page..)
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> --[[Joey]]
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>> Maybe you could add `print.css` file for printable version? We just have
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>> `local.css` file for a local styling. --Pawel
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>>> Sure, very doable, but the UI to switch to it when printing, I don't
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>>> know..
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>>>> Is the IU to switch is really necessary? Why don't use only
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>>>> `style.css` and `print.css` files in header of printable version
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>>>> of page? The second file can be equivalent of `local.css` file
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>>>> and it can overwrite default CSS styles.
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>>> BTW, I'm sure that the Print link as originally requested could be
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>>> written as a plugin fairly simply. --[[Joey]]
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>>>> I'm not a Perl expert, but I can take a look at code of other
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>>>> ikiwiki plugins.
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>>>> BTW, I also was thinkig about plugin to CVS support,
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>>>> but unfortunately I don't have too much free time. --Pawel |