Hi Isaac,

On Fri, May 29, 2015 at 12:11 AM, Isaac Bennetch <bennetch@gmail.com> wrote:

Hi Deven,

On 5/25/15 11:25 AM, Deven Bansod wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Thanks for the reply.
>
> On Mon, May 25, 2015 at 6:31 PM, Isaac Bennetch <bennetch@gmail.com
> <mailto:bennetch@gmail.com>> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> Sorry for my delayed response; it's a holiday weekend here and I was
> away from the internet all day yesterday.
>
> On 5/23/15 6:29 AM, Deven Bansod wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > RFE #701 proposes that we should replace the 'Print View' and 'Print
> > View (with Full Texts)' with a 'Print View' Option which should print
> > out the CSS of the page only (i.e. whatever exactly is currently
> > displayed on the page itself).
> >
> > /I had something in mind about the implementation, but am not able to
> > figure some details. Any help in this regard would be appreciated. /
>
> My first thought when I saw the initial feature request years ago was to
> make a print view stylesheet (such as [0])that hides the navigation
> frame, menu bar, etc. At the time, that wasn't a viable option because
> of the frameset, but with the move to a single page for display it might
> be possible now. I did not test whether this would actually work for us,
> but if it does the "Print" button can simply become a javascript
> function to tell the browser to print rather than opening a whole new
> plain-formatted page with different rendering. For me, this certainly
> would be the preferred method if it works.
>
>
> Thanks for the link. I will look into it and explore.

I've done some exploring with the CSS solution, and thought I'd share my
thoughts, although they're incomplete at this time.

I had some success so far with making the following changes to CSS
(which I would expect to be reflected in a print stylesheet, which
should be loaded after the other stylesheets to override any duplicated
directives). There are obviously some unwanted elements remaining, but
this looks like the beginnings of a decent print view.

Note that for development purposes, I like to leave the "print"
stylesheet set for screen display, that way I can view what it will look
like without constantly going to the print preview feature of my
browser. Once it looks good on my screen, I set the stylesheet to @media
print{} and check it in the actual print preview. It's not a sure thing
of how it will look when rendered for printing, but helps me get close
without wasting a lot of time in the print dialog.

Thanks for sharing. This seems like a good strategy. I was indeed wasting a lot of time

there.

Here are the changes I made so far:

#page_content
{
position: absolute;
left: 0;
top: 0;
width: 100%;
float: none;
/* float:none is a work around for a Gecko-based bug when printing
more than one page; see
http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=104040 and
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=129941 -- this may
actually be resolved, finally, but doesn't seem to hurt anything and
old habits die hard
*/
}

pma_navigation
{
display: hidden;
}

floating_menubar
{
display: hidden;
}

pma_console_container
{
display: hidden;

page_nav_icons
{
display: hidden;
}

Yes. I had made almost the same changes in the pdf print that I had sent on the mailing list

in this thread previously except the first one.

Thanks for a great head start. I will also continue to look into it. And try to

find a simpler way to not include specific elements.

I was thinking of adding a class-related css like

.print_ignore {

display:none;

}

into the print.css and then adding this class

dynamically to these 'not-to-be-printed' elements (by may be parsing the HTML and adding class

on pre-decided basis, for ex. we don't need action buttons so add this class to these <td>)

while printing.

I will post an update when I get to something significant.

Thanks.

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Regards,

Deven Bansod