Creating button for page printing

[NAPPC]

Well the title is pretty much self explanatory, lol, I would like to give my
users the option to print out the pages on the site. The site is a
recipe/cooking based site with images and interactive cookbook; some people
just want the one recipe and I haven't got the foggiest idea how to or where to
get the code to do this. I have the site saved as a pdf for download but it is
410 pages, not sensible to print the whole thing if there are 3 recipes you
want!
Could someone help or direct me on how to do this, all I know is that it is a
form with the button image and thats it.

Thanks

[Pia Ala Mode]

They select a recipe, display it in a page, and then the user selects Print
from the File menu... pretty standard browser capability... so why re-invent
the wheel?


"NAPPC" <webforumsuser@macromedia.com> wrote in message
news:daclue$5ro$1@forums.macromedia.com...

> Well the title is pretty much self explanatory, lol, I would like to give
> my
> users the option to print out the pages on the site. The site is a
> recipe/cooking based site with images and interactive cookbook; some
> people
> just want the one recipe and I haven't got the foggiest idea how to or
> where to
> get the code to do this. I have the site saved as a pdf for download but
> it is
> 410 pages, not sensible to print the whole thing if there are 3 recipes
> you
> want!
> Could someone help or direct me on how to do this, all I know is that it
> is a
> form with the button image and thats it.
>
> Thanks
>

[Murray *TMM*]

WHile I agree with Pie that everyone is familiar with how to print pages, if
you really want to do this, you need to consider that programmatic prints
fail without error in Mac IE5x.

Put this in the head of the document -

<script type="text/javascript">
function print_page(where){
var is_mac=(navigator.platform.indexOf("ac") != -1);
(document.all && is_mac)?
alert("Select \"Print\" from the menu") : where? where.window.print() :
window.print();
}
</script>

Put this in the body of the document -

<a href="javascript:print_page()">Print this</a>



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"NAPPC" <webforumsuser@macromedia.com> wrote in message
news:daclue$5ro$1@forums.macromedia.com...

> Well the title is pretty much self explanatory, lol, I would like to give
> my
> users the option to print out the pages on the site. The site is a
> recipe/cooking based site with images and interactive cookbook; some
> people
> just want the one recipe and I haven't got the foggiest idea how to or
> where to
> get the code to do this. I have the site saved as a pdf for download but
> it is
> 410 pages, not sensible to print the whole thing if there are 3 recipes
> you
> want!
> Could someone help or direct me on how to do this, all I know is that it
> is a
> form with the button image and thats it.
>
> Thanks
>