The web view of our documents are not printer friendly, the main lotus site uses a button that changes (i think) the form or something like that to remove the navigation and other items from the page with a button called “Printer Friendly”
Example: http://www-10.lotus.com/ldd/r5fixlist.nsf/5c087391999d06e7852569280062619d/94fd3ff2434462c385256c6f00791b67?OpenDocument&Highlight=0,notes
has the button that links to
http://www-10.lotus.com/ldd/r5fixlist.nsf/FixPrint/94FD3FF2434462C385256C6F00791B67/?OpenDocument
which is printer friendly.
That’s what i’m looking to do for my forms.
I’ve tried searching for this, but searching for the text printer friendly results in everything under the sun.
Any ideas? Examples? thoughts?
Thanks!!
Jim McKenzie
Subject: Printer Friendly web form - How do I do it?
Yes – don’t create a printer-friendly form. Use CSS to eliminate the stuff that shouldn’t be printed (UI widgets, navigation, etc.) and even reformat the printable bits for better results on paper. See CSS Design: Going to Print – A List Apart for more information.
I mean, why make your users wait for a new version from the server, and why put your server through any grief?
Subject: Printer Friendly web form - How do I do it?
A easy way to do is to have a seperate view with a form formula in it. That way when you open currentdocument through the printview it will force the document to open in a specific print form that you have created.
Subject: RE: Printer Friendly web form - How do I do it?
Again, that creates an unnecessary round trip to the server. If you have to support ancient browsers, it’s a decent-enough approach (and the only approach for really old stuff), but the CSS method is better from a resource standpoint if you can use it. Just let your viewers know that you’re doing it.
Subject: RE: Printer Friendly web form - How do I do it?
One benefit in having a separate broswer window (no menus, tools etc) open when print is requested, is that it gives the user a print-preview capability (i.e. they know how the printed page is going to look before they decide whether to print it).
And yes, I do know about newer IE browsers having a File/Print Preview… facility that effectively invalidates the above argument. But a lot of users don’t know about the facility, and some browsers (10-20%) do not support print preview.