Comments on: Making Your Blog Printable

By: Brennan’s Blog » Blog Archive » Reasons to Blog and Tips to do it Well

Fri, 09 Nov 2007 18:02:30 +0000

[...] it is really important to make your blog printable. It is not that hard and doing so will help people print out your blog to read when they are away [...]

By: Mike Schinkel

Mike Schinkel — Thu, 19 Jul 2007 05:42:05 +0000

I absolutely agree with you on this! I frequently print blogs to read offline and most print just awfully. I wish more bloggers and themer authors would pay attention to this. And thanks for the Firebug + JQuery tip and the bookmarklet tip from Scott.

BTW, I use a util called FinePrint that with my duplexing HP printer will print 8 pages on a sheet of paper (4-up front & back with tiny print) or 4 pages on a sheet of paper (2-up front & back with larger print) plus it lets me delete the straggling last page that only has a footer showing of a many-page post. Saves a lot of trees.

That said, here's what I'd really like to see more blogs offer:

http://www.mikeschinkel.com/blog/themostawesomeprintdialogonthewebever/

By: Brennan Stehling

Brennan Stehling — Tue, 17 Jul 2007 20:12:56 +0000

Interesting. I am hoping the blogs hosted on weblogs.asp.net are set up for printing. It is all done with Community Server so it should be possible to update all of them with a printable stylesheet.

By: Scott

Scott — Tue, 17 Jul 2007 13:42:53 +0000

I've been using a bookmarklet to trim the page down for printing: http://mrclay.org/index.php/2006/04/23/mypage-bookmarklet/

It's pretty simple to use, although I've never used jQuery/Firebug to do it so I don't know how it compares.