State of the art on tidy printing

[kilucas]

I've read a lot of posts here about printing efficeinetly but am
confused about the latest state of the art especially when it comes to
achieving good printouts without editing style sheets if at all
possible.

When I print currently I get:

- 1 blank page with Internet Explorer's standard header and footer.
Sometimes I've seen this page with a thick boundary but nothing inside

- 1 page that reflects the standard TW header pane. It's a full page
of blue and only contains text from the site title and subtitle

- multiple pages containing my tiddlers.

I want to remove the first two of these pages. I wouldn't mind if the
first page showed the TW heading pane in a small bar across the top of
the first page, just as it appears on the screen, but don't want to
waste two pages, one of which is full of (expensive) ink.

Is there a simple way to achieve this perhaps and if not, what's the
simplest approach currently known please?

Many thanks

Kevin

[Martin Andreas Eines]

try adding this to a tiddler called StyleSheet:
-- snip --
/*{{{*/
@media print {
.header, #sideBar, #mainMenu, #backstage, #backstageArea,
#backstageButton {display: none;}
}
/*}}}*/
-- snap --

Theoretically, this should prevent anything but the curently open
tiddlers from printing.

(I'm not sure if all those #backstage* selectors are needed in the CSS
though - added them just in case. Shouldn't hurt anyway)

HTH, martin

[kilucas]

Martin

Thanks for the speedy reply. I'll give this a try.

Kevin

On Sep 28, 9:27 pm, "Martin Andreas Eines" <drau...@draugrheim.net>
wrote:

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[Martin Andreas Eines]

further investigation seems to indicate default TW styles do (pretty
much) this already. but give it a dtry anyway

// martin

[kilucas]

Martin

This worked like a dream.

Thanks very much.

Kevin

On Sep 28, 11:10 pm, "Martin Andreas Eines" <drau...@draugrheim.net>
wrote:

> On Mon, Sep 29, 2008 at 12:05 AM, kilucas <kevin.lu...@concave.co.uk> wrote:
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> > Martin
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> > Thanks for the speedy reply. I'll give this a try.
>
> > Kevin
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> > On Sep 28, 9:27 pm, "Martin Andreas Eines" <drau...@draugrheim.net>
> > wrote:
> >> On Sun, Sep 28, 2008 at 6:51 PM, kilucas <kevin.lu...@concave.co.uk> wrote:
>

> >> > I've read a lot of posts here aboutprintingefficeinetly but am

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