Tech: print only one post?

Subject: Tech: print only one post?
From: CRANKY YANKEE
Date: 23 Jun 03 - 02:02 PM

Please,
Can someone tell me how to print only one post to a thread?

Subject: RE: Tech: print only one post?
From: MMario
Date: 23 Jun 03 - 02:04 PM

The easiest way is probably to cut and paste.

Subject: RE: Tech: print only one post?
From: Mark Clark
Date: 23 Jun 03 - 02:25 PM

Here are instructions for IE, I don't have a copy of other browsers to experiment with.

1. Using your mouse, highlight all the lines you'd like to print. Just click and drag until the lines you want are all selected.
2. Now choose File/Print from the menu or just press Ctrl-p.
3. When the print dialog pops up, click the radio button labeled "Selection" in the Page Range group in the lower left part of the dialog.
4. Choose other print options the way you normally do.
5. Click the Print button at the bottom of the dialog.

This will print only the selected portion of the page you're viewing. You'll still get things like page numbers and the URL printed as headers and footers but you won't get any content you didn't select.

      - Mark

Subject: RE: Tech: print only one post?
From: Pene Azul
Date: 23 Jun 03 - 02:41 PM

Click the "Printer Friendly" link below the message, and print the page.

Jeff

Subject: RE: Tech: print only one post?
From: Allan C.
Date: 23 Jun 03 - 02:45 PM

Leave it to Max, Pene and the clones to have already thought of adding this feature! Great going, guys!

Subject: RE: Tech: print only one post?
From: MMario
Date: 23 Jun 03 - 02:49 PM

duh! I *knew* that. CRS strikes again!

Subject: RE: Tech: print only one post?
From: Mark Clark
Date: 23 Jun 03 - 03:10 PM

Well, will you look at that. Just shows I don't have enough natural curiosity.

Thanks Jeff.

      - Mark

Subject: RE: Tech: print only one post?
From:
Date: 23 Jun 03 - 05:51 PM

OR!!!!

Click on the name of that person who wrote the message in question. Then you can access just that specific message instead of the whole thread.

Then you can print that message and only that message.

Subject: RE: Tech: print only one post?
From: Joe Offer
Date: 23 Jun 03 - 06:15 PM

Hmmm. I don't think your way works, George. There is a "printer friendly" link at the top of each thread that sets the entire page up in printer-friendly format. There is also a "printer-friendly" link at the bottom of each message, and that sets the individual message up for printing. Either way, you then have to click the "print" icon on your browser. Clicking the "printer-friendly" link just sets it up for you. Try clicking the link - it won't waste paper, and you may find the results useful for other purposes.

Now, if you click on the name of the sender of a message (in the message itself), it searches for all messages posted by the sender. If you click on the sender's name up at the top of a thread, it will take you to the message posted by that person at that time.

We don't want to use the FAQ for a detailed explanation of the purpose of every link we provide at Mudcat. We encourage people to look around for themselves. You'll be amazed at what you'll find.

-Joe Offer-



P.S. Take a look at the Quicklinks Dropdown Menu, found toward the top of most Mudcat pages - there are all sorts of features in Quicklinks. Try Song Origins & Info or Russian Folk Songs, for example.

Subject: RE: Tech: print only one post?
From: JohnInKansas
Date: 23 Jun 03 - 08:38 PM

For a quick print, either the "Printer Friendly" button on the individual post, or the "Print Selection" method noted by Mark Clark will work.

Either of these methods will give you a print of the plain-text, but neither method includes any "record" of how to go back to the source posting. Neither method saves the URL for any "hot spots" in the printed material. That's not much of a problem here, since the layout of a Mudcat posting is pretty distinctive, and you can always search out the thread title.

On the off chance that someone might want to copy an "excerpt" from somewhere other than the 'cat, it should be noted that if you want "full documentation" of a printed selection, you need to paste it into something like Word, so that you can add the "page URL" and translate the "target" addresses of any links before you print it. Then you have a record of where the print came from, and as much as you want to save of any links it contained.

Knowing how to use your browser and printer features to save web pages, save selections from pages, print selections, and paste whole pages or selections as formatted or unformated text, read link URLs, copy and save pictures, etc. can be really handy - when you visit sites that don't provide the exceptional features found at Mudcat.

John