#379 good looking printouts

[Lee Worden]

How to print the wiki pages so that they make good pdfs, Is there custom CSS to plug in that does this?

[Lee Worden]

Here is some, from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Printable. I've tested it and it does make the pdf look better. Paste this CSS code into http://your.wiki/index.php/User:Yourself/monobook.css:

/ Printing customizations from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Printable /

/ shrink the fonts /
@media print {
#footer,
#content,
body { font-size: 8pt !important; }
h1 { font-size: 17pt }
h2 { font-size: 14pt }
h3 { font-size: 11pt }
h4 { font-size: 9pt }
h5 { font-size: 8pt }
h6 {
font-size: 8pt;
font-weight: normal;
}
}

/ Remove non-essential elements /
@media print {
.firstHeading { margin-top: 0; padding-top: 0; }
#siteSub { display: none; }
.printfooter { display: none; }
#catlinks, .catlinks { display: none; }
#footer { display: none; }
}

After you edit that, you have to do a "hard" reload (Ctrl-F5 in Firefox) on a given wiki page before printing to make sure it's using the latest copy of your monobook.css.

How is that?

[Lee Worden]

Alternatively, I think one can make these rules apply for all users by putting them in MediaWiki:Print.css, without the surrounding "@media print { }".

[Lee Worden]

Ticket moved from /p/workingwiki/feature-requests/24/