Printing eBird data?

[Gary Brower]

CoBirders. . .

(Especially those with great knowledge of eBird!)

I’m trying to print a collection of bar charts from eBird. But all I am able to print is the name of the bird 9and the two little icons to the right of the species name). The bar charts themselves do not print.

Does anyone know what’s going on, and how to get around it? I’ve tried saving it to pdf, and that doesn’t work either. The only thing that has worked has been taking screen shots . . . but that’s incredibly tedious.

Thanks so much.

Gary Brower
Unincorporated Arapahoe County

[Bryan Guarente]

I have a solution, but it is complicated.  If you are using Chrome, Edge, Opera, or Safari, this should work:

1. Open the bar chart you are interested in printing.
2. Open the Javascript Console (CTRL+SHIFT+C or CMD+SHIFT+C)
3. In the new window that pops up, the second tab across the top of that window should be "console".  Click on console.  
4. In that tab, then you can paste in the following next to the greater than sign (>):

$(".b1, .b2, .b3, .b4, .b5, .b6, .b7, .b8, .b9").css("-webkit-print-color-adjust", "exact")

Then print the document and you should get the bar chart.

Ask questions, because I am sure there will be some.  

Thanks for the fun foray into fixing poor CSS/HTML

Bryan

Bryan Guarente

Meteorologist/Instructional Designer

UCAR/The COMET Program

Boulder, CO

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[Gary Brower]

Bryan, et al,

Thanks Bryan  . . .

Bill Schmoker came up with the easy solution:

The issue is in the print dialog on the computer side- when printing a web page like that, after hitting print but before continuing look for a box to check saying “print background images” or something like that.

That solved the problem!

So, thanks to Bill!

Gary

[Diana Beatty]

Would taking a screen shot and printing the image file work?

Diana Beatty

El Paso

[Gary Brower]

Diana,

Thanks.  Problem previously solved (see a later email).

Since the total print job was about 11 pages, and the bar charts don’t easily lend themselves to screenshots, that wasn’t workable.

Gary