DW8 for Print Layout?

Report · May 04, 2007

Recently we created a newsletter for e-mailing and posting on our site. This month, we would like to use the HTML document and manipulate it so we can adapt it for a print layout.

For example, we would add page breaks, adjust margins, remove or modify print headers, etc., building upon the DW8 HTML instead of ripping out the HTML and starting over from scratch which would require repeating all that design work in a print layout program.

Is there such a tool/plug-in out there?

Thanks.

Report · May 04, 2007

Generally, it's done through CSS. So, the HTML would be the same, but use a
different style sheet for the web and for print.

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Report · May 04, 2007

On Fri, 4 May 2007 18:16:41 +0100, "Julian Roberts"
<nospam@charon.co.uk> wrote:

>Generally, it's done through CSS. So, the HTML would be the same, but use a
>different style sheet for the web and for print.

But you won't have the same control that you would in a DTP
application, especially for headers and footers.

Even if you make a special version of each for the print CSS, and turn
off the ones visible on screen, understand that they do not print on
every page.

You get the header at the start of all the content for a particular
page, and the footer at then end of all the content - not on each page
as it is printed.

For the same reason, I don't think you can include the page number in
the styled footer. You just get whatever the browser chooses to use.

Win
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Report · May 04, 2007

On Fri, 4 May 2007 17:14:15 +0000 (UTC), "FiddleGuy"
<webforumsuser@macromedia.com> wrote:

> For example, we would add page breaks, adjust margins, remove or modify print
>headers, etc., building upon the DW8 HTML instead of ripping out the HTML and
>starting over from scratch which would require repeating all that design work
>in a print layout program.

While there are some limited things you can do with CSS, Dreamweaver
creates html pages. It is not a desktop publishing tool and is not the
right tool for the job you are trying to accomplish. You might have some
luck by opening the html page is a DTP app and going from there.

Gary

Report · May 04, 2007

HTML is a display media... not print.

Import your document into a desktop publishing tool that can read an HTML
file.

"FiddleGuy" <webforumsuser@macromedia.com> wrote in message
news:f1fpl7$e11$1@forums.macromedia.com...
> Recently we created a newsletter for e-mailing and posting on our site.
> This
> month, we would like to use the HTML document and manipulate it so we can
> adapt
> it for a print layout.
>
> For example, we would add page breaks, adjust margins, remove or modify
> print
> headers, etc., building upon the DW8 HTML instead of ripping out the HTML
> and
> starting over from scratch which would require repeating all that design
> work
> in a print layout program.
>
> Is there such a tool/plug-in out there?
>
> Thanks.
>
>

Report · May 04, 2007

If I may chime in and make some suggestion or comment along with other participants & et. al., do some tweaking with CSS and test on every web browsers.

Please understand that we sometimes don't have control over the kinds of printers, because there are plenty of different types of printers - laser printer, color laser or inkjet printers or pretty darn old-fashioned dox-martix printers.

I believe that you can use your judgement and commonsense with that approach by tweaking with CSS around HTML and do some through testing with different browsers.

Hope that helps.

Cheers, Brian

[On edit, additional note...] When you say if there is a plug-in, well here is what I think Adobe Reader (PDF reader) -- usually most computers are installed with Adobe Reader plug-in on many systems.

The alternative approach is to design a simple PDF document, where you have the control of layout and such. Try to keep the size small as much as possible so it can be downloaded very fast. But I don't think that is what you are looking at, though.

If you go with this alternative approach, you might want to offer a link in your email and let the customers or clients to download the PDF file that way. I don't know. You decide.

Report · May 07, 2007

DW8 allows you to switch to viewing media="print" styles as follows:

View > Style Rendering > Print Media Type

Note that this changes rendering of all pages and sticks until you
change it back to "Screen Media Type".

I agree that this may not be as easy as using some DTP applications, but
if you put all of your print styles in a single .css file, then you
should be able to re-use it for most (all?) of your pages.

HTH,
Randy

> Generally, it's done through CSS. So, the HTML would be the same, but use a
> different style sheet for the web and for print.