Hi, --On Freitag, 20. Juli 2001 09:39 -0400 Joel Burton <jburton@scw.org> wrote:
On Fri, 20 Jul 2001, Tino Wildenhain wrote:
Hi Ismet,
define "printable" :-)
Regards Tino
--On Freitag, 20. Juli 2001 20:05 -0700 Ismet Dere <ismet@fiducia-china.com> wrote:
hello all,
howto create a printable version of current document in zope, is there any DTML/Python script available for this?
On our site, we have a "Print" button that does the following:
1) Calls the page you're on, with "?pp=1" at the end
2) Our standard_html_header and standard_html_footer check for pp=1, and if so, show standard_print_header and standard_print_footer.
standard_print_* show heads & footers that are simplified, lack complex table stuff, etc. They also use a different CSS file that is more print-oriented.
3) The link to the Print page uses target=_blank so that the printable version can be closed, and the original page is still there.
Nice, but if you drop the idea of documents or at least use a ZClass for them, you can add a method index_html for displaying them as usual and print to display them for printers. This would show the URL yourpage/print vs. yourpage?pp=1 And enables you to still pass other arguments to the page. (As sideeffect not every page has to have <dtml-var standard_html_header> and stuff in it) Regards Tino
You can try it out at http://scw.org.
Or:
CMF has "skins" so that printable is just one look for a page, so this can be a prebuilt solution. CMF, however, seems to completely lack coherent documentation. ;-)
-- Joel Burton <jburton@scw.org> Director of Information Systems, Support Center of Washington