That’s cool. Thanks Vincent ☺ I finally got some time (and was forced to) look at implementing changes to the print formatting. I had some mixed results. I’ll document what I’ve done below and the bits I am having some trouble with and hopefully someone can provide me with further tips.
1. I managed to format the PDF Export output by attaching a pdf.css file to my custom skin application (as per http://extensions.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Extension/Skin+Application). This has mostly worked for straightforward items like headers and font. But I am having trouble with some of my tables and it would help if I could reduce the margins of the page. QUESTION: Is there a simple way to modify the margins (I need narrower margins) 2. I tried to format the printed output but found that attaching a print.css to my skin application did very little/nothing to format the output. I tested by creating an article in the Sandbox, Clicking “More Actions” > “Print Preview” > Press Ctrl+P. This was testing in Chrome and Firefox with the same effect/results. 3. I then found that there were several @Media=”Print” sections in the Style.css file. So I downloaded this, removed the @Media sections and re-attached my new style.css to my skin application. This now allowed my formatting in the attached print.css to take effect. So this now works and looks as I would expect. But I don’t really like the idea of having my own style.css as it’ll make it more difficult to take advantage of any new formatting changes that may be added later (unless I’ve missed the point here) 4. I have locked down the xwiki so that only registered and logged in users can view any of the documents. Unfortunately this now means that style.css is not accessible on the login page. I have modified the access rights on the skin application and given view permissions to XWikiAllGroup but I suspect I need to somehow give access to guests but I can’t see how to do that. Sorry for the long email and I hope I’ve explained clearly. Any help greatly appreciated (as always). Kind regards, Mahomed From: Vincent Massol [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of [email protected] Sent: 10 May 2015 11:29 To: XWiki Users Cc: Mahomed Hussein Subject: Re: [xwiki-users] Printing pages as displayed Thanks for the kind words! You’re now on http://www.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/References/Testimonials :) Thanks -Vincent On 8 May 2015 at 11:30:18, Mahomed Hussein ([email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>) wrote: Thanks for this. The power of xwiki and the great job the developers/contributors have done never ceases to amaze me! I love it :) Kind regards, Mahomed -----Original Message----- From: users [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Ecaterina Moraru (Valica) Sent: 07 May 2015 13:29 To: XWiki Users Subject: Re: [xwiki-users] Printing pages as displayed Except print.css another way of 'printing' XWiki pages would be to customize the PDF export, but this step is more complicated (you need to do modifications to pdf templates, XHTML2FO XSL and FOP XSL transformations, etc.), see http://platform.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/AdminGuide/Configuration#HCustomizingthePDFexportLook26Feel Depends on what you need to do. Have fun, Caty On Thu, May 7, 2015 at 2:57 PM, Mahomed Hussein <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: > Great! Thanks. Good to know I was on the right path :) > > > Kind regards, > > Mahomed > > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: users [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Ecaterina > Moraru (Valica) > Sent: 07 May 2015 12:25 > To: XWiki Users > Subject: Re: [xwiki-users] Printing pages as displayed > > On Thu, May 7, 2015 at 1:46 PM, Mahomed Hussein > <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> > wrote: > > > Hi > > > > Can anyone help please with some information on how to modify/control the > > print layout please? Thanks. > > > > Each skin has a print.css > > > > > > > > Kind regards, > > > > Mahomed > > > > > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: users [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Mahomed > Hussein > > Sent: 05 May 2015 17:59 > > To: XWiki Users > > Subject: Re: [xwiki-users] Printing pages as displayed > > > > Oh! I forgot to mention we are running 7.0.1 and a custom skin/theme > based > > on the flamingo skin. > > > > > > Kind regards, > > > > Mahomed > > > > > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: users [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Mahomed > Hussein > > Sent: 05 May 2015 17:53 > > To: XWiki Users > > Subject: [xwiki-users] Printing pages as displayed > > > > Hi > > > > Is there a way of printing the pages as they are displayed? Ideally > > printing without the side panel, but with all the different > > colours/formatting as it appears on the screen would be ideal. At the > > moment all colours and formatting is stripped if you try to print > directly > > from the page, using the print preview option or by exporting to PDF. > > > > I have tried an export to HTML and then using the local html file to see > > if that works but it seems that whatever script/css is forcing the print > > formatting still takes effect on the exported html. I have tried saving > the > > page only directly but it still does the same thing. I have tried Chrome. > > Firefox and IE. > > > > I have also tried a google search and I have searched for print and > > printing on the FAQ but there are so many results it may take a few hours > > to go through them all. I suspect there’s a CSS file I need to modify > > somewhere (possibly print.css?) that will format the export with the > header > > colours etc. If so, please could someone kindly point me at the correct > > documentation or provide any tips/hints? > > > > Thanks in advance. > > > > > > Kind regards, > > > > Mahomed > > > > > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > users mailing list > > [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> > > http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/users > > _______________________________________________ > > users mailing list > > [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> > > http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/users > > _______________________________________________ > > users mailing list > > [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> > > http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/users > > > _______________________________________________ > users mailing list > [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> > http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/users > _______________________________________________ > users mailing list > [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> > http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/users > _______________________________________________ users mailing list [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/users _______________________________________________ users mailing list [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/users _______________________________________________ users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/users
