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It's usually done in one of two ways:
1. Old style - different page with simpler formatting
2. New style - a PRINT CSS file is used to reformat the existing page to a
more printer friendly style.
If you know CSS it's pretty simple and very powerful. If you don't know CSS
it's pretty easy to get to grips with! Hell you could even offer PDA
friendly pages the same way.
> I've noticed that many websites have a "printer-friendly
> version" button on certain pages. Click it and the
> information on those pages appears, apparently still in HTML,
> in a way that prints out neatly using the browser's Print command.
>
> My question is: how the heck do they do that? Is that just
> smart HTML design or are there other tools and processes
> involved to produce "printer-friendly" pages on the web? If
> it's not too hard or costly to master, we could conceivably
> design online documentation with intelligently planned
> "printer-friendly" versions of selected portions in order to
> provide printability with our HTML doc and thus avoid having
> to generate PDFs.
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