Printable Version of a Page

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Hi everybody,

may somebody has already an aproach and could help me?

I have a app (REST Design) and what I would like to have is a link like "print page" where the actual view can be displayed in a popup and another layout.

Does anybody has a clue, whats the best way to implement this?

Thank you very much!

kind regards

Rafael

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Hey Elliot, thanks a lot

would you send it like this

example.com/vacancies?view=print example.com/vacancies/1234?view=print

and then make a condition for the params in the layout?

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beYou media { Rafael Schär } wrote:

Hey Elliot, thanks a lot

would you send it like this

example.com/vacancies?view=print example.com/vacancies/1234?view=print

and then make a condition for the params in the layout?

I think a different stylesheet would make the most sense. Make a CSS stylesheet that is simplified: white background, black text, any menus/ads/etc hidden (using display: hidden or something along those lines.) You should be able to do this without directly involving rails.

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Hi, I just want to add one thing to the solution.

I don't know about browser support but it should be possible to specify both the stylesheets with the media attribute set to "screen" and "print" (I think) and the browser is supposed to pick up the correct one when it displays/ prints.

That way, you don't have to worry about things like "example.com/vacancies?view=print" and you don't need to re-generate the page (specially since you've already done the hard work of searching the DB and rendering the page) - everything is done in the browser itself.

You may need to check on browser support for this - I know Firefox supports this for sure and I expect Opera does too. I wouldn't be surprised if IE 7.0 also has proper support for this.

Take a look at this page for an example.. you'll see that in the screen mode, you get to see the menus but when you do a print preview, the page cleans up:

Cheers, Mohit. 7/6/2007 | 12:11 PM.