Hi, everybody,

I may be mistaken, and I apologize if I am, but didn't there used to be a way to view (and save) these threads as "printer-friendly"? I'm not finding that capability since the forum change-over, and if I'm just not seeing it, could some kind soul point me in the right direction?   

I used to use that feature a lot, and saved many threads as tutorials that way; so, any help appreciated!

(Also: is there a trick to using the "paste" function when posting?)

(Also: is there a trick to using the "paste" function when posting?) in mac OS: cmd-c (copy), then cmd-v (paste), with some variations depending on browser. I don't wish to print any of these, but in Mac OS netscape, it's "save page as text file".

Printer friendly is no more :(   The Bondware package obviously does not include it.

Saving the thread as a txt file of course has no pics when a thread tute is ilustrated.

Only options I can find now - at least in FireFox =
1.  Save as a complete page - which includes all banners sidebars and even the editor making it a huge file. For instance the:  Thread >Subject: Attempt at reducing Koz hair speculars in P6 -  an April 14th thread including the folder for it's images and another for the fck editor  comes in at around 2.2MB

or if you have Microsoft Office

1. Use File> Print Preview >print [check Print to File] chose in the dropdown box ' Microsoft Office Document Image Writer '[.mdi]  which comes in at 478kb

thanks for the MS Office tip.  I'd saved my printer friendly threads as web pages which ate up my HD, now converted, they're less space intensive and work with the PDF type interface - great.

Sheila

Thanks for all the good tips and info;  I'm now saving as PDFs...which I wouldn't have thought of. I'm curious, though; I can't get the pages to  "Save as....HTML document" any more: at 49%, the save errors-out with "Couldn't save Web page".

Anybody know if this is also due to the Forum change-over?

In the new Opera (version 9 beta - and Opera is finally a free browser btw), you can switch between 'author' and 'user' mode and it simplifies the layout. You can also force a page to fit the width of the browser, and turn the images on and off - all of which can make it a little more printer handy. User mode even lets you get rid of that extremely annoying font barrowlass uses. Firefox users can also get an assortment of extentions which can make it look good for printing.

Quote - User mode even lets you get rid of that extremely annoying font barrowlass uses.

Hi Arcady!  Is this better?   I use a bold/larger font as my eyesight's going a bit awry, but if the resultant font causes you pain, I'll modify it - Sheila xxx

i empathize with the eyesight problem; same here. but there is a better solution. instead specifically for each entry, you should set the font type and size in your own CSS, because the former interferes with those people who have customized their CSS already to make the pages comfortable for themselves to view, and those who like the default. (same goes for people who set font colours -- it's annoying and sometimes completely unreadable; don't do it this way.)