In my previous post I expressed the intention to introduce a new and easy way how to get a print preview of a web page. And here it comes!
Let me introduce you Greasemonkey Print Preview user script. The script scans a page and if the page contains a stylesheet for a printer (print media) the script displays (in the top-left corner) a semi-transparent bar with a link to the print preview of the page.
If you click on the link the page stylesheets are switched and you can see the page as it would print on a printer. There is also a keyboard shortcut - [ctrl]+[alt]+p.
It is possible to switch off the print preview bar (the keyboard shortcut remains functional).
Why would you install the script?
Because this is the easiest way how to get a print preview. There are other ways, but they are not as quick and straightforward as using Greasemonkey Print Preview.
Sunday, November 4, 2007
Friday, October 26, 2007
I'm tired of switching to print preview the old way ...
Sitting at my computer I usually do not have time enough to read all of the vast amount of interesting web articles I stumble upon.
So I often print the articles and read them while commuting to/from work. But I do not print each article one by one. I copy the articles to a document (a Google document opened in another Firefox tab in fact) and print all the document before I leave the office.
I found that the best source for a copy is a print preview of a web page. But it is not as easy as I would like to get a print preview of a page - I'd prefer one mouse click or a key stroke at the best.
I'm a big Firefox fan. There are tools in Firefox to switch the displayed content into print preview (I'll come to these later).
But I haven't found a Firefox tool which would meat all my preferences on this.
So I decided to do something with it!
What? Stay tuned ...
So I often print the articles and read them while commuting to/from work. But I do not print each article one by one. I copy the articles to a document (a Google document opened in another Firefox tab in fact) and print all the document before I leave the office.
I found that the best source for a copy is a print preview of a web page. But it is not as easy as I would like to get a print preview of a page - I'd prefer one mouse click or a key stroke at the best.
I'm a big Firefox fan. There are tools in Firefox to switch the displayed content into print preview (I'll come to these later).
But I haven't found a Firefox tool which would meat all my preferences on this.
So I decided to do something with it!
What? Stay tuned ...
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