The Art Of Print
Introduction
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Further Reading & Resources
Below are resources I used for this article and would be interesting further reading on the subject.
- CSS Design: Going to Print
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You've seen them before: links that say 'click here for printer-friendly version' or words to that effect. Every time you follow one of those links, you load a separate document that presents exactly the same information with a different layout, and probably different markup.
That means somebody (or a script) had to take the original document and convert it to a stripped-down version that's more suitable for print output. Maybe that somebody was even you.
- CSS, Printing and User Expectation
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Common practice with the usage of print stylesheets is to remove anything except the content — menus, ads, buttons and backgrounds. But what if you want to print those? What if the whole reason for printing out the page was to capture that ad? …that I love the layout so much I want to frame it? A print stylesheet presumes to know exactly what it is that you want to print, yet the web page presents us with a host of ancillary information that we might also want to capture. The only way I can circumvent the print stylesheet is to hack it out — mess with the source and remove the stylesheet link.