Hi all,

I am new to web designing and new to this forum, so any and all help is greatly appreciated.

I have a website with a lot of text content spread over half a dozen pages. I want to give readers the option to print out a file that has all of the text in one place for easy readability. I am hoping to create such a file (possibly as a pdf) and store it on the server, and then have a print link which will automatically print this file without the user having to download and print the file manually.

Is this possible? How would I go about doing this?

Also, if this is not an appropriate question for the HTML forum, which forum should I post under?

Thank you in advance for all replies, Layla

can't be done.
the server cannot send print commands to a client printer.

I would like to make a very user friendly, cross-platform friendly way to print out a file with the text of the whole site. What is the best way to do that? Should I create a pdf and then link to it and have people print it from their browser? Will they have to have special pdf reading software installed on their computer? Is there an easier way to do this?

A linked pdf will do fine, and every man and his dog will have a version of Acrobat reader on their machine.

you can to create additional pages for printing (page with guilty text only).
Such page can be available by link from original page (with rich info, menu, adv. etc.)

at the end of page code you can place following code:

<script>
document.print();
</script>

This code asks user about page printing.

Originally Posted by MapMaster

you can to create additional pages for printing (page with guilty text only).

guilty text??

Originally Posted by MapMaster

Such page can be available by link from original page (with rich info, menu, adv. etc.)

at the end of page code you can place following code:

<script>
document.print();
</script>

This code asks user about page printing.

That will NOT print from the server which is the original question.

>guilty text??
I mean page with useful text

>That will NOT print from the server which is the original question.
Right, but server side may generate code for client side to propose printing.

I am hoping to create such a file (possibly as a pdf) and store it on the server, and then have a print link which will automatically print this file without the user having to download and print the file manually.

In actual fact what the OP is asking for is impossible, for a file to print on the client machine it MUST be downloaded.