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:

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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. 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

On Fri, 20 Jul 2001, Tino Wildenhain wrote:

Hi,

--On Freitag, 20. Juli 2001 09:39 -0400 Joel Burton <jburton@scw.org> wrote:

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On Fri, 20 Jul 2001, Tino Wildenhain wrote:

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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)

In our case, everything uses standard_html_header or simple_html_header, or navigation-lite version, so it wasn't a problem. If we didn't have this consistency, we'd have problems, of course. I *like* the ?pp=1 at the end. The usual arguments about how scw.org/foo/print is nicer than scw.org/foo?pp=1 doesn't hold too well here, since I don't want search engines to archive our printable versions, etc. A ZClass would be a clean solution, but given that we use StructuredText products, DTMLDocuments, DTMLMethods, etc., it would be hard to have a separate ZClass wrapper for each to handle the /print functionality. If you really wanted the nice clean URL scw.org/foo/print, perhaps you could add a "print" PythonScript or such at the root of your site that would mangle that called object to make it look printable. Take care! -- Joel Burton <jburton@scw.org> Director of Information Systems, Support Center of Washington