On 3/5/17, Alexander Yudenitsch <[email protected]> wrote:
> Paul B. Gallagher wrote, on 05 Mar 17 03:02:
>
>> Many website nowadays have their own "Print" buttons that deliver what
>> the designers consider "printer-friendly" versions of their pages. But
>> even if I ignore those and use SeaMonkey's own "Print" function, many
>> sites outsmart me by serving their "printer-friendly" versions. A prime
>> example is <http://www.nytimes.com>. Pick any page and print it, and
>> you'll find that you've lost all the graphics, fonts, and layout and
>> gotten only a plain-text version of the page.
>>
>> Does anyone know how to outsmart these sites and print the pages as
>> received, complete with all the bells and whistles?
>>
>> Conversely, for pages that are too fancy/fussy for my taste and don't
>> serve dumbed-down versions on their own, is there a way for the user to
>> select that?
>
> A screen-capture program might work, but most pages you'll want to print
> won't conveniently fit on one monitor/screen, so the 'scrolling' mode
> would have to be used, and that frequently doesn't work well.
>
> I tested the NYT page with SnagIt 7, and it captures what's on screen
> fine (and can print that), but haven't managed to make the scrolling
> work (and disabling add-ons and/or AV/ZA/etc didn't help).
>
> Since, as Steve Dunn pointed out, the page's HTML is commanding this
> behavior, I guess the only way to circumvent it is by    <.. snip ..>

save the page, edit the .html file removing any references to
media="print" stylesheets, load the saved page, print

Lee
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