How to make a printer friendly page with java??

[malsyriani@yahoo.com]

I need your help to make a printer friendly page with java?? Thanks

[cr3ative]

What do you mean?

cr3ative

[malsyriani@yahoo.com]

I want that the visitors of my homepage to have a printer friendly version.

[cr3ative]

Javascript can't really do that. You could just hyperlink to a printer-friendly page like ebuyer.com or dabs.com do on their product pages; these are just separate html files which are a little more sparse on layout.

cr3ative

[Nate_Bro]

well, there is a way, but it would be a whole lot Ez'r if you just made a separate HTML or a TEXT file, other wise you have to do a lot, i mean a lot, of document.write, you would have to write your page twice in it, once is hard, but twice! that would take forever! lol
I use CGI for mine, its a lot less writing, but its kinda hard to program if you don't know what you are doing

[cr3ative]

Ditto.

document.write 'ing would be a heck of a project for each webpage and every tiny change you make, whereas CGI or similar programming would just pretty much do itself once set up.

cr3ative

[Konstantin]

I want that the visitors of my homepage to have a printer friendly version.

You may convert whole page, that your need in image format. Your users can print it on any operating system. It's great way for compatibility your pages.

I use Universal Document Converter for converting.

[cr3ative]

:/ That's a bit of a kick in the shins for dialup users though...

I still pity them, I only got broadband a year or so ago.

cr3ative

[Konstantin]

Web page in GIF format, not so big. And if I understood correctly, users need to see not all pages.. but few of it? when it's good solution

[eagle00789]

you are just not thinking simple enough. i did it with just a singe css file extra. define in the header the following (ofcourse, change it where needed):

<LINK REL=StyleSheet HREF="./style/style.css" TYPE="text/css" MEDIA=screen>
<LINK REL=StyleSheet HREF="./style/print.css" TYPE="text/css" MEDIA=print>

Create a button (or link) with the following code:

<input type="button" name="Print" value="Print" onclick="javascript:window.print();
">

that's it. check www.decomputeur.nl and then the FAQ. click on any link on the right side and then the print-button to see it in action. Below is my normal .css file

body {
  background-color: #00ff99;
  background-image: none;
  font-family: arial, verdana, 'sans serif'; 
}
a:link {
}
a:visited {
}
img {
  border: 0px;
}

and this is my print.css file:

body {
  background-color: White;
  background-image: none;
  font-family: arial, verdana, 'sans serif'; 
}
a:link {
  color: black;
}
a:visited {
  color: black;
}
img {
  border: 0px;
}