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Print view suggestion
Posted: Wed Feb 12, 2020 7:00 am
by Midas
Simple issue: as is, when "print view" is invoked on a topic (click the 'spanner button' on header or footer), the result is a simplified page that includes only the posts shown originally -- i.e., the topic is broken into pages, each requiring their own print view.
Could this be amended to be comprehensive or, in other words, include the full topic?
I realize this might prove problematic with very long threads -- the one devoted to DropIt springs to mind -- but then there are few such topics and possibly they could be excluded if they go over a reasonable threshold.
I have seen this in plenty other forums and it would make it a lot more useful for my own purposes, namely archiving.
Re: Print view suggestion
Posted: Thu Feb 13, 2020 1:49 am
by Andrew Lee
Are you saying that if a topic has say 60 posts paginated into 10 pages, the print view should be able to display all 60 posts?
Re: Print view suggestion
Posted: Thu Feb 13, 2020 7:19 am
by Midas
Yes.
Mind you, it's not really for physically printing OFC but to generate a simplified single file HTML file suitable for archiving.
I doubt that even for physical printing those page breakdowns are all that useful -- there are lots of local (e.g., printing device) and remote variables (like post length and such) to be considered, IMHO.
Re: Print view suggestion
Posted: Thu Feb 13, 2020 12:07 pm
by vevy
+1
Midas wrote: ↑Thu Feb 13, 2020 7:19 am... to generate a simplified single file HTML file suitable for archiving.
and more capable local find in page.
Re: Print view suggestion
Posted: Thu Feb 13, 2020 6:51 pm
by Andrew Lee
and more capable local find in page
Isn't that a browser-end function i.e. Ctrl-F?
Re: Print view suggestion
Posted: Thu Feb 13, 2020 7:05 pm
by vevy
Yes. I meant it is another benefit of having everything on the same page. You don't have to depend on the site search tool or have to CTRL+F each page separately. You can even use regular expressions more easily.
Re: Print view suggestion
Posted: Thu Feb 13, 2020 7:50 pm
by Andrew Lee
Pretty sure stock phpBB doesn't have this feature.
I will search to see if there is an extension that implements this.
Re: Print view suggestion
Posted: Fri Feb 14, 2020 4:54 am
by Midas
Thanks for your consideration.
Re: Print view suggestion
Posted: Fri Feb 14, 2020 9:36 pm
by Andrew Lee
There used to be a phpBB extension that does this for phpBB 3.0.x:
https://www.phpbb.com/customise/db/mod/ ... s_in_topic
Unfortnuately that extension was never ported over to phpBB 3.2.x.
Re: Print view suggestion
Posted: Tue Sep 15, 2020 7:29 pm
by vevy
Re: Print view suggestion
Posted: Wed Sep 16, 2020 3:17 am
by Andrew Lee
OK, will add that to my todo.
Re: Print view suggestion
Posted: Wed Sep 16, 2020 11:17 am
by vevy
Re: Print view suggestion
Posted: Fri Sep 18, 2020 3:13 am
by Andrew Lee
Unfortunately, the extension in question is only available for a very old version of phpBB (V3.1.x), and the author did not release a newer version for 3.2 or 3.3.
I am quite certain extensions for V3.1.x would not carry over to newer versions, since I went through this exercise when I upgraded phpBB for the site a couple of years back.
Re: Print view suggestion
Posted: Fri Sep 18, 2020 3:36 am
by vevy
The discussion link
above is about this very thing. It apparently does work on 3.3