problems printing blogs with firefox

[Dave Howorth]

My solution is to copy and paste the URL of the page to be printed from
Firefox into OpenOffice -- the Load URL button/location field on OOo's
Standard toolbar makes this easy. Then Export as PDF (or print to paper) from
within OpenOffice.
This works best if the print version of an online article is first selected;
OOo doesn't render the fancier features of some pages. But it formats the
main text flow very well, with good font support.

That's a great idea. Thanks Matt.

Since my original post I've also discovered another alternative that
often works, which is the Screengrab add-on for Firefox. It can make a
PNG or JPEG of whatever's on the Firefox page, which can then be printed.

I see there's also one called ScrapBook but I haven't tried that.

Cheers, Dave

[Matt Ryan]

Sometimes just removing the whole CSS file is good enough.

Don't need to save to disk to do that. Just set the to-be-printed tab's
"Style" to none in the View menu.

Sadly, that doesn't work. It only applies to the screen view and is
reset by any printing operation.

[ snip ]

Yes, I've tried that occasionally too. Are we two the only people who
ever print anything :(
Cheers, Dave

Hallo, I've been away from this mailing list for a while, but at the same time
I've been having exactly this problem!

My solution is to copy and paste the URL of the page to be printed from
Firefox into OpenOffice -- the Load URL button/location field on OOo's
Standard toolbar makes this easy. Then Export as PDF (or print to paper) from
within OpenOffice.

This works best if the print version of an online article is first selected;
OOo doesn't render the fancier features of some pages. But it formats the
main text flow very well, with good font support.

Hope this helps,

Matt

[Carlos E. R.]

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I find what works passably is a separate browser or profile with settings
conformed to what web authors assume users use, loading pages to print there,
taking screenshots of the pages to be printed, then trimming the browser
chrome and printing the screenshots via image editor instead of printing the
browser pages directly. This works best if either your screen resolution is
considerably higher than 1024x768, or you have virtual desktop/panning
enabled, so that the browser viewport can be big enough to hold the
equivalent of a whole sheet of paper before taking each screenshot.

I copy paste to oowriter, then remove "features" by hand. Often I can't
select-copy all, but select by sections, because if you select all the
frames are also copied and text can not be flowed.

Tedious work.

Aargh! Yes, that's what I do to print google maps.

For that, I print to postscript and open in gimp to extract the picture.
If you want more precission, you can also extract the original bitmaps of
the google maps and join them together in a big image. Doable with some
scripting, at least the satellite view, not the road/street map (I haven't
tried).

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Cheers,
Carlos E. R.
(from 11.2 x86_64 "Emerald" at Telcontar)

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Post by Carlos E. R.
For that, I print to postscript and open in gimp to extract
the picture. If you want more precission, you can also
extract the original bitmaps of the google maps and join them
together in a big image. Doable with some scripting, at least
the satellite view, not the road/street map (I haven't
tried).

i would think ksnapshot would be easier than all that

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