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26/08/2008, 4:52 jxedwards Joined on 07/11/2004 Lot, South Wales, Sakhalin Island Posts 154 Printing a Forum Thread without the nonsense Is there any way that a forum thread can be 'printer friendly' so when printed I do not use half acre of rain forest printing daft signatures and avatar's!!! I just want to print the 'meat & 2 veg'.     John   PS Yes mine is daft also. Even a stopped clock is correct twice a day!!    Report

26/08/2008, 7:06 Clair Joined on 23/08/2004 ------- Forum Moderator ------- Lot (46) Posts 7,731 Re: Printing a Forum Thread without the nonsense I don't think the forum software is up to it... Clair Real Virtual French Person    Report

26/08/2008, 8:38 Anton Redman Joined on 23/08/2004 Gironde Posts 2,208 Re: Printing a Forum Thread without the nonsense Highlight the text you want to print with the mouse. Control C to copy. Open a word document and 'Paste Special' as unformatted text. You should then have the plain text. The next step is to manually remove the places where there are too many carriage returns (that dates me)  / line feeds Example below : Is there any way that a forum thread can be 'printer friendly' so when printed I do not use half acre of rain forest printing daft signatures and avatar's!!! I just want to print the 'meat & 2 veg'.    John   PS Yes mine is daft also.   -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Even a stopped clock is correct twice a day!!   Today, 8:06   Clair    Joined on 23/08/2004 ------- Forum Moderator ------- Lot (46) Posts 6,759  Re: Printing a Forum Thread without the nonsense     I don't think the forum software is up to it...   -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Clair, a Real Virtual French Person    Report

26/08/2008, 20:03 Clarkkent Joined on 23/08/2004 Posts 569 Re: Printing a Forum Thread without the nonsense  Anton Redman wrote: Highlight the text you want to print with the mouse. Control C to copy. Open a word document and 'Paste Special' as unformatted text. You should then have the plain text. The next step is to manually remove the places where there are too many carriage returns (that dates me)  / line feeds Example below : In Word you can use Find/Replace to remove the carriage returns using a control code, ^p. What I do is ask Word to replace ^p with xxx. This gives a text interspersed with xxx and xxxxxx etc. Then replace xxxxxx with ^p^p to retain the original paragraph layout. The remaining xxx occurrences can be removed using a Find/Replace with just a spacebar press in Replace. I find this particularly useful for long .txt passages which have been written in short lines.    Report

09/09/2008, 5:35 ErnieY Joined on 05/12/2006 Nr Prayssac (Lot) Posts 4,043 Re: Printing a Forum Thread without the nonsense YES YOU CAN ! I discovered this by sheer accident. Look in the address bar and you will see that this page is called - www.completefrance.com/cs/forums/1371940/ShowPost.aspx Change Show to Print and you get THIS If even comes up with your printer dialogue, or does for me. Cool EDIT: Seems to work with some other forums too. Tried it on www.digitalspy.co.uk/forums/showthread.php?p=27293780 with similar result My doctor said one drink per day, I can live with that !    Report

09/09/2008, 7:50 Albert the InfoGipsy Joined on 01/07/2006 Kingdom of the Middle Saxons & Vannes (56) Posts 629 Re: Printing a Forum Thread without the nonsense You're a genius Mr Y! It's a wonder that there isn't a button visible somewhere to work the magic. Is this just a configuration option that was missed when the software was implemented? Albert the InfoGipsy "So welcome to the Citadel where the question is 'Am I?'"    Report

09/09/2008, 8:01 ErnieY Joined on 05/12/2006 Nr Prayssac (Lot) Posts 4,043 Re: Printing a Forum Thread without the nonsense  Albert the InfoGipsy wrote: You're a genius Mr Y Recognition at last, and I thought I was just mad My doctor said one drink per day, I can live with that !    Report

09/09/2008, 8:09 Cat Joined on 21/01/2005 ------- Forum Moderator ------- Lot Posts 3,441 Re: Printing a Forum Thread without the nonsense Ernie, well done you!  Did you by any chance find the printthread thingy after doing a google custom search?  I've noticed that, when using the advanced google search options to restrict search results within a website or domain, sometimes a printthread/printpost result comes up for some sites, but I'd never made the obvious connection to use it to any advantage.   Cathy Always keep your words soft and sweet, just in case you have to eat them.    Report

09/09/2008, 8:21 ErnieY Joined on 05/12/2006 Nr Prayssac (Lot) Posts 4,043 Re: Printing a Forum Thread without the nonsense It was a result of a Google search for    TNTparsat   which bizarrely gave me as a first hit a page on this very forum ! http://www.completefrance.com/cs/forums/1333558/PrintPost.aspx Quite how or why that specific link is PrintPost I have no idea My doctor said one drink per day, I can live with that !    Report

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