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bruceb

6 posts since
Dec 14, 2007

Dec 17, 2007 3:44 PM

Lost Print Selection

In the old web site, when you wanted to print an article without all the adds and other formatting objects, you would select "print" from the top line and the article would appear ready to print. I just noticed today, that that selection has been removed. Please tell me how to print an article without all of the adds and web objects.

Bruce8

56 posts since
Jun 27, 2004

1. Dec 17, 2007 8:42 PM

in response to: bruceb

Re: Lost Print Selection

Ditto. Please Bring Back the PRINT FORMAT.

Print Format button feature was something I used every day.
To minimize paper output when I want to print an article. As it is now in New MacWorld, you chop down more trees to get a paper copy. Very anti-ecological.
To minimize data storage when I wish to save an article for its technical information. Now the saved file is larger with extra graphics and longer load back times. Not user friendly anymore.

Please provide a compact, easy on the paper, easy on the storage, PRINT FORMAT.

Thank you.

leicaman

1,144 posts since
Dec 4, 2003

2. Dec 18, 2007 7:15 AM

in response to: bruceb

Re: Lost Print Selection

In fact, do something really cool and let us click a button and it automatically creates a PDF of the story!

Or have something in our preferences that could do that or plain/rich text?

Give us something other websites don't!

Eric

There are three kinds of men. The ones that learn by reading. The few who learn by observation. The rest of them have to pee on the electric fence. - Will Rogers

Bruce8

56 posts since
Jun 27, 2004

3. Dec 18, 2007 10:29 AM

in response to: bruceb

Re: Lost Print Selection

leicaman - Great additional suggestion.

Macworld - please take a look at some of the pdf article/reports that Tech Republic produces as an example. Or the Arstechnica pdfs.

JBrightman

32 posts since
Dec 12, 2007

4. Dec 19, 2007 3:01 PM

in response to: bruceb

Re: Lost Print Selection

You can now print any article page and get a printer friendly format automatically.

Jason B.

bruceb

6 posts since
Dec 14, 2007

5. Dec 19, 2007 3:24 PM

in response to: JBrightman

Re: Lost Print Selection

Please explain how to do this. The "Recomend This Story" panel at the bottom of the articles, still does not have a print icon.

JBrightman

32 posts since
Dec 12, 2007

6. Dec 19, 2007 3:30 PM

in response to: bruceb

Re: Lost Print Selection

Hey BruceB, Just use your file>print in the browser, like you would in any app. The print formating will happen automatically.

Jason

bruceb

6 posts since
Dec 14, 2007

7. Dec 20, 2007 8:38 AM

in response to: JBrightman

Re: Lost Print Selection

The print formatting is not working properly. My printed page is created with a 1.625 margin on the left side of the sheet, and a .5 margin on the right side. Additionally, the word-wrap is not working properly in that words approaching the right margin are truncated.

JBrightman

32 posts since
Dec 12, 2007

8. Dec 20, 2007 9:29 AM

in response to: bruceb

Re: Lost Print Selection

Thanks, we'll get that more adjusted and less truncated.

Jason B.

sjk

91 posts since
Jan 10, 2005

9. Dec 20, 2007 2:24 PM

in response to: JBrightman

Re: Lost Print Selection

JBrightman wrote:
You can now print any article page and get a printer friendly format automatically.

That's helpful -- thanks. Doesn't work with forum threads (yet), though.

Still, I definitely preferred the old printer-friendly format because it was unpaged, denser (i.e. more on-screen content), and excluded user comments. If nothing more, an option to exclude comments when printing/saving articles from the new site would be appreciated.

I've liked to occasionally save printer-friendly styles of articles (especially reviews) and comments separately in my DEVONthink database, which has unfortunately been downgraded with the new new site.

Edit: The old printable formats converted well for viewing with iSilo on my Palm PDA.

Bruce8

56 posts since
Jun 27, 2004

10. Dec 20, 2007 2:41 PM

in response to: sjk

Re: Lost Print Selection

Yes, having compact/dense (just the facts ma'am) format is also useful for those who store the data inside the various Information management apps. - DevonThink, MacJournal, SOHO, Notebook, etc.

I had not thought about how the non-printer-formated web pages dramatically -and adversly- increase the size of the info management database file(s).

This is another great reason to bring back/create a printer-friendly just the facts/article/data format.

(I had not thoought to check what my info db size increases due to included content were...)

JBrightman

32 posts since
Dec 12, 2007

11. Dec 20, 2007 4:36 PM

in response to: Bruce8

Re: Lost Print Selection

The print format has been adjusted. We can turn the comments on or off for printing. What does everyone want — comments or no?

Jason B.

sjk

91 posts since
Jan 10, 2005

12. Dec 20, 2007 6:08 PM

in response to: JBrightman

Re: Lost Print Selection

JBrightman wrote:
The print format has been adjusted.

The previous version had more content per page; I used this article for comparison:

Macworld | Mac OS X Hints | Add more power to 10.5's screen sharing

We can turn the comments on or off for printing. What does everyone want — comments or no?

Off, if the choice is one or the other. When I want comments (separately) I can click the post a comment in our forums link at the bottom of the an page, although I prefer the minimalist formatting style they currently have when printing the main article.

Point is, the MW changes have broken a convenient workflow I'd used for archiving articles and/or their comments in DEVONthink with minimal fluff. I'd be satisfied with however you choose to restore that.

On the plus side, forum email notifications have been working more reliably now.

sjk

91 posts since
Jan 10, 2005

13. Dec 20, 2007 6:27 PM

in response to: JBrightman

Re: Lost Print Selection

JBrightman wrote:
What does everyone want — comments or no?

Another reason I vote for comments being disabled with article printing is because of the redundant copy with multi-paged articles, e.g.:

Inside Leopard: Under-the-hood

In fact, I dislike how the identical comments are redisplayed on each page -- period. Ars Technical has that same dumb behavior and now MW has inherited it. Sigh.

/me wonders why issues like this haven't already been discovered and resolved during earlier beta testing.

bruceb

6 posts since
Dec 14, 2007

14. Dec 20, 2007 6:45 PM

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