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Author: kdk
Date: 2012-08-03 13:40
I wanted to print out one or two of the posts to the thread about Jeanjean-like etudes - a couple of replies about sets of studies I hadn't known about. I'm probably missing something very simple and obvious, but I realized I don't know how to do it. I resorted to cutting and pasting into a Notepad screen and printing from there. Is there an easier way to print a response directly?
Karl
Post Edited (2012-08-04 17:50)
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Author: Ken Shaw ★2017
Date: 2012-08-03 14:00
If I use the Print command directly, I often get pages running off the edges of the paper. There's a Firefox add-in that removes all the non-text surrounding material, which solves the problem, but I don't use it.
Instead, I use Firefox with the AutoCopy add-in https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/autocopy-2/?src=api, which automatically copies highlighted material to the clipboard.
I have a standard blank page in Word with page numbering, which I load at the beginning of a session. I then highlight what I want, jump to the Word page (using Alt+Esc) and paste it into the Word document. I've also added a macro that pastes the clipboard contents as plain text.
Notepad is brain-dead. If you don't have Word, it's better to use Wordpad, or download the free Libre Office http://www.libreoffice.org/.
Ken Shaw
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Author: kdk
Date: 2012-08-03 16:01
Thanks. I only used Notepad because it loads faster than anything else and I don't keep any kind of text editor always open. I do have MS Office and, for script editing (I run 3 websites and write my own html code) I use Wordpad, so I'm familiar with that as well. I was hoping there is a print utility somewhere in the BBS software itself that would print an individual post without having to use an outside program of any sort. When I right-click on the post, the menu that pops up doesn't include a print function, and using <ctl><p>, as you say, prints the entire screen (with the text a little small to read comfortably). I'm generally in Chrome when I'm reading the BB, so maybe the Firefox add-in you mention would do the job if I use Firefox instead. Obviously, copying highlighted material to the clipboard is no different than what I did using <ctl><c>.
I'm surprised that something as apparently sophisticated as Phorum doesn't include a local message printing utility.
Karl
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Author: Mark Charette
Date: 2012-08-03 16:08
kdk wrote:
> I was hoping there is a print
> utility somewhere in the BBS software itself that would print
> an individual post without having to use an outside program of
> any sort.
Nope. This software is ancient, but attempts at updating it have resulted in either missing or corrupted base functionality (all the new "cool " stuff is what people work on, not basic stuff ) or worse performance than we have now.
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Author: kdk
Date: 2012-08-03 17:13
Oh, well, we can always dream. I don't try to do it so often that it matters very much, and cutting and pasting into a text editor isn't so hard to do.
Karl
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Author: tictactux ★2017
Date: 2012-08-04 17:01
If you still use Notepad or WordPad, try NotePad++, especially for scripting and other "plain text" oriented stuff as it has a really cool syntax highlighter. Unlike other editors, it doesn't lock open files so you can keep eg source files loaded and compile them in a different window. It's my main Lilypond editor.
Open Source.
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Ben
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Author: kdk
Date: 2012-08-04 17:19
Is it a MS program or does it come from a third party source?
Karl
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Author: clarnibass
Date: 2012-08-04 17:30
What browser are you using (maybe you wrote it and I missed it)? In Explorer you can select the text, right click, choose print, then choose "print selection" (or something like that).
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Author: kdk
Date: 2012-08-04 17:47
I'm using Chrome, although I have Firefox and IExporer installed and easily available. I see what you're talking about in IE. The choice to print only the selection is actually part of the Windows print dialog and, it turns out, is also available when you <ctl><p> with a section of text highlighted in Firefox. I'd just never noticed it. For some reason Chrome seems to use its own print dialog, which doesn't offer a selection-only choice.
Thanks. It still prints small. Maybe there's a way if I look around some more to enlarge the print size a little. Now that I know it's there, that option may be useful in lots of other situations in which I routinely cut-and-paste to print excerpts from a larger screen display.
Karl
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Author: Bob Phillips
Date: 2012-08-10 16:49
Open Word
Come back to the BB
Scrape up (select) what you want to print.
Copy it to the clipboard
Go back to Word
Paste from the clipboard
Print from there.
Pretty much like what Ken does.
Oddly, the newest version of word has to be open BEFORE you can transfer anything from the clipboard.
Bob Phillips
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Author: GeorgeL ★2017
Date: 2012-08-11 15:13
With Vista or Windows 7 you can use the 'snipping tool' to copy anything on the screen. The copy is a picture, not a text file, but it can be expanded to any size and printed.
Google 'snipping tool' to learn about it.
Look under Start, All Programs, Accessories to find it.
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