[MTOS-dev] "Print this Page" plugin

[Dave Morgan]

On 27-Feb-08, at 11:10 , Su wrote:
> [Snapping off topics. This is completely unmanageable under a  
> single heading]

No worries
>
> On Wed, Feb 27, 2008 at 11:40 AM, Dave Morgan <dave at 1001111.com>  
> wrote:
>
>> If there is not a "Print this Page" plugin
>
> Define what this means to you?
>
> At one level, this requires nothing more than a print stylesheet, and
> if you feel it, a link triggering window.print(), requiring no plugin
> unless you want to provide a convenience tag producing that JS link.
>

No, I would like something fax friendly, proper page sizing, pagination,
remove menu's and ads, etc

> Or, you could produce an alternate "print version" of a document,
> which only calls for a new template an a minor edit here and there to
> link, still no plugin.

That is essentially what we are looking for. If it does not need a  
plugin it just
shows my current lack of understanding of the internals of MTOS :)

> If you want to get really fancy,

Noooooooo, please :)

> On the actual plugin end of things, there's the HP Blog Printing one:
> http://plugins.movabletype.org/hp-blog-printing/
> which may be of interest, though it uses an external service, which
> you can figure out from scanning the source.
>

We looked at this, it did not meet our needs, don't really remember why.

Thanks for your input

Dave