Re: [Codestriker-user] Printing option for codestriker

[David S. <si...@us...>]

Hi Stephen,

This sounds good to me - nobody has specifically talked about this 
before, but I can see why it would be useful occasionally.  We should be 
able to achieve most of this hopefully through CSS.

Cheers,
David

Stephen Morton wrote:
> Has there been any discussion about producing diffs in a printable format?
> 
> A few people around work have been asking me for the ability to 
> occasionally print diffs from codestriker. Of course the simple answer 
> is that you can using your browser's built in print function. It even 
> looks pretty good. But there are a few things that would make it more 
> "printer friendly".
>     I think this could be done without adding a whole printing module, 
> just adding a hyperlink to pages called something a bit shorter than 
> "printer friendly version". People could select this from a 
> multiple-file diff view or a single file diff view. It would simply 
> redisplay the current page with the following modifications:
> 
>     * Make the background pure white. (Diffs don't look much good with
>       all shading turned off, but it wastes a lot of toner to have
>       everything shaded in 10% grey.
>     * Removing excessive header and trailer information.
> 
> I was going to work on this myself (because people here at work want it 
> anyway) and then submit proposed changes back to codestriker, but I 
> thought I'd check first to find out if this had been discussed before 
> and if there were strong philosophical views about this being a The 
> Wrong Thing To Do, or something.
> 
> Let me know what you think,
> 
> Stephen
>