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  2. CONFSERVER-1075

User print-only stylesheet to make printing easier, more beautiful and more configurable

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      Here's an easy fix proposal for improving (and simplifying) Confluence's printing a lot: create a new style sheet for just printing purposes. I've used one on a number of occasions and with a print-only stylesheet it's possibly for you to entirely lose the custom jsp code for the "printer friendly" page since you could just set the style sheet to hide the navigation when printing. Could use the same technique for the PDF generation?

      At the moment the printed pages have unnecessary "back to previous page "links and form elements which aren't necessary at all.

      If you're unfamiliar with the technique, read for example the following:

      http://webdesign.about.com/cs/css/a/aa042103a.htm

            [CONFSERVER-1075] User print-only stylesheet to make printing easier, more beautiful and more configurable

            Matt Ryall added a comment -

            This has been implemented for 2.8. When printing from the normal view, navigation will be removed by a print stylesheet and the page enhanced for print.

            Please feel free to raise any additional improvements you may require after the release of 2.8.

            Matt Ryall added a comment - This has been implemented for 2.8. When printing from the normal view, navigation will be removed by a print stylesheet and the page enhanced for print. Please feel free to raise any additional improvements you may require after the release of 2.8.

            Edward Murrison added a comment -

            What would be even better would be an the ability to exclude any given element from a page. This already exists for the TOC macro so why not expand it to cover all elements e.g. it is currently not possible to exclude an info box from the output.

            Edward Murrison added a comment - What would be even better would be an the ability to exclude any given element from a page. This already exists for the TOC macro so why not expand it to cover all elements e.g. it is currently not possible to exclude an info box from the output.

            Michael Spoonauer added a comment -

            Related to this, I would like to be able to control whether comments get printed along with a page. Sometimes they're critical to understanding the full context of the content on the page.

            Thanks,
            Mike

            Michael Spoonauer added a comment - Related to this, I would like to be able to control whether comments get printed along with a page. Sometimes they're critical to understanding the full context of the content on the page. Thanks, Mike

            Sulka Haro added a comment -

            Related issue: CONF-1047

            Sulka Haro added a comment - Related issue: CONF-1047

              dtaylor David Taylor (Inactive)
              ec22805fc0e2 Sulka Haro
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