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Subject:RE: Previous, Next and Print buttons in Help From:Paul Hanson <phanson -at- Quintrex -dot- com> To:TECHWR-L Writing <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com> Date:Mon, 18 Jan 2010 13:01:28 -0600
Are you talking about using a CSS file for "media=print" to create the "formatted-for-nice-printing" version? Have any CSS to share?
Paul
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From: techwr-l-bounces+phanson=quintrex -dot- com -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com [mailto:techwr-l-bounces+phanson=quintrex -dot- com -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com] On Behalf Of McLauchlan, Kevin
Sent: Monday, January 18, 2010 12:56 PM
To: Robert Lauriston; TECHWR-L Writing
Subject: RE: Previous, Next and Print buttons in Help
Robert Lauriston mumbled:
[...]
> I would put a Print in the content header only if it was going to do
> something more than just invoke the browser's print command.
YES!
They are useful when they invoke a formatted-for-nice-printing version.
They are useless when they just try to print the current screen.
I especially used to hate the old embedded Print buttons that would
print only the top visible portion of a page that needed lots
of scrolling.... and then would reprint that top portion no
matter how far down you'd scrolled.
Hmm... apropos of this, what old cartoon used to make occasional
use of an "Urge to Kill" bubble - sorta like a speech or thought
bubble, but... um... more specialized ?? Anybody remember that?
Yeah, I could Google, but it's more fun if some other old fart
admits to recalling the same thing.
It wasn't Dilbert, though I always sympathize and get a kick out
of Alice's fist-of-death and it's various incarnations.
- Kevin ("... must restrain..." )
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