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
>
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