jxedwards Posted August 26, 2008 Share Posted August 26, 2008 Is there any way that a forum thread can be 'printer friendly' so when printed I do not use half acre of rain forest printing daft signatures and avatar's!!! I just want to print the 'meat & 2 veg'. John PS Yes mine is daft also. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Clair Posted August 26, 2008 Share Posted August 26, 2008 I don't think the forum software is up to it...[:(] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anton Redman Posted August 26, 2008 Share Posted August 26, 2008 Highlight the text you want to print with the mouse. Control C to copy.Open a word document and 'Paste Special' as unformatted text. You should then have the plain text. The next step is to manually remove the places where there are too many carriage returns (that dates me) / line feeds Example below :Is there any way that a forum thread can be 'printer friendly' so when printed I do not use half acre of rain forest printing daft signatures and avatar's!!! I just want to print the 'meat & 2 veg'. John PS Yes mine is daft also. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------Even a stopped clock is correct twice a day!! Today, 8:06 Clair Joined on 23/08/2004 ------- Forum Moderator ------- Lot (46) Posts 6,759 Re: Printing a Forum Thread without the nonsense I don't think the forum software is up to it... --------------------------------------------------------------------------------Clair, a Real Virtual French Person Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Clarkkent Posted August 26, 2008 Share Posted August 26, 2008 [quote user="Anton Redman"]Highlight the text you want to print with the mouse. Control C to copy.Open a word document and 'Paste Special' as unformatted text. You should then have the plain text. The next step is to manually remove the places where there are too many carriage returns (that dates me) / line feeds Example below :[/quote]In Word you can use Find/Replace to remove the carriage returns using a control code, ^p. What I do is ask Word to replace ^p with xxx. This gives a text interspersed with xxx and xxxxxx etc.Then replace xxxxxx with ^p^p to retain the original paragraph layout. The remaining xxx occurrences can be removed using a Find/Replace with just a spacebar press in Replace.I find this particularly useful for long .txt passages which have been written in short lines. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AnOther Posted September 9, 2008 Share Posted September 9, 2008 YES YOU CAN !I discovered this by sheer accident.Look in the address bar and you will see that this page is called - www.completefrance.com/cs/forums/1371940/ShowPost.aspxChange Show to Print and you get THIS If even comes up with your printer dialogue, or does for me.Cool [8-|]EDIT: Seems to work with some other forums too. Tried it on www.digitalspy.co.uk/forums/showthread.php?p=27293780 with similar result [:D] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Albert the InfoGipsy Posted September 9, 2008 Share Posted September 9, 2008 You're a genius Mr Y!It's a wonder that there isn't a button visible somewhere to work the magic. Is this just a configuration option that was missed when the software was implemented? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AnOther Posted September 9, 2008 Share Posted September 9, 2008 [quote user="Albert the InfoGipsy"]You're a genius Mr Y[/quote]Recognition at last, and I thought I was just mad [:$] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cat Posted September 9, 2008 Share Posted September 9, 2008 Ernie, well done you! Did you by any chance find the printthread thingy after doing a google custom search? I've noticed that, when using the advanced google search options to restrict search results within a website or domain, sometimes a printthread/printpost result comes up for some sites, but I'd never made the obvious connection to use it to any advantage. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AnOther Posted September 9, 2008 Share Posted September 9, 2008 It was a result of a Google search for TNTparsat which bizarrely gave me as a first hit a page on this very forum !http://www.completefrance.com/cs/forums/1333558/PrintPost.aspxQuite how or why that specific link is PrintPost I have no idea [8-)] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AnOther Posted September 9, 2008 Share Posted September 9, 2008 A search for completefrance +printpost has revealed one other similar direct linkwww.completefrance.com/cs/forums/1228126/PrintPost.aspxand a some indirect references to a few other threads.www.completefrance.com/cs/forums/1249329/PrintPost.aspxwww.completefrance.com/cs/forums/1190374/PrintPost.aspxwww.completefrance.com/cs/forums/1228126/PrintPost.aspxwww.completefrance.com/cs/forums/119753 0/PrintPost.aspxwww. completefrance. com/cs/forums/827924/PrintPost.aspxWonder what marks these out from other threads ?Curiouser and curiouser Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cat Posted September 9, 2008 Share Posted September 9, 2008 If you do a custom google ( by using printpost site:www.completefrance.com/cs/forums/ in the google search box ) there are over 20 pages of results! http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&lr=&safe=off&as_qdr=all&q=printpost+site:www.completefrance.com/cs/forums/&start=0&sa=N Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AnOther Posted November 6, 2008 Share Posted November 6, 2008 Update if anybody is interested [geek]For multi page threads the simple substitution of Print for Show doesn't work however with a little URL editing they can be still be printed.For example, this thread:www.completefrance.com/cs/forums/2/1451783/ShowPost.aspx#1451783consist of 2 pages and to print it change Show for Print as usual but also strip out the page number, in this case /2, and the #1451783 at the end so it becomes: www.completefrance.com/cs/forums/1451783/PrintPost.aspxSo far nor found a way to print a specific page from a multi page thread. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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