h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

On the few occasions I've tried to print from the site, it's gone all funny ad only printed the screen, not the whole article. I think someone else mentioned a problem printing in Goo.

Would it be possible to have a button/link to open an article's text in a plain window, aligned for optimised printing. I've seen this done elsewhere, although I don't know how practical it would be on h2g2.

The Prophet.

Printing in goo doesn't work because it is whitetext on white paper (so unless you specify print backgrounds and use up a lot of print toner/ink then you can't see anything). At the moment I use alabaster for printing, but a dedicated "simple" skin would be even better,

Another idea for printing is to select the text and copy and paste into a text editor. That's how I do it, and saves changing skins.

That's what I've found I have to do. This - incidentally - I did from Alabaster, where the printing still wouldn't work properly.

The Prophet

Great point, TP - I'd forgotten. A "printable" skin or just a print button (which only prints the article itself, with maybe a standard header) would be excellent.

There's a feature in HTML which allows the browser to process the page differently if it's being printed than to what it shows on screen. This is extremely useful - it can remove side/top bars and put the page address in instead, for example. I'm surprised the h2g2 skins don't incorporate that already. Could that be put on the to do list?