Bloggers Hacks Enable Printer Pages in your Blogs

04Jun08

Enabling a printing page in blogs is necessary for every blogger so that he can print page directly from blogger post , Enable Printer Pages the advatage of this is that using this feature reader can only print the content of your posts, and not the sidebar content , footer and header sections .

So to converts yours current webpage into a printer friendly format and sends it to your printer for printing in your blog, follow a simple step-by-step tutorial on how to do it.

Step 1. Go toBlogger Dashboard >> >Layout >> Edit HTML Now Copy the below code and paste into your blog template inside the <head> tag

<style media='print' type='text/css'>

#header-wrapper, #header, .header, #sidebar-wrapper,
.sidebar, #footer-wrapper, #footer,
.date-header, .post-meta-data,
.comment-link, .comment-footer, #blog-pager, #backlinks-container, #navbar-section, .subscribe_notice, .noprint {display: none;}
#main-wrapper {width: 95%}

</style>

Preview it if not showing any Error Save the Template And move for second Steps to Insert Link .

Step 2: In this step you have to insert a “Print This Page” link under each post to notify your readers that your posts can be printed effectively.

To Insert print link below yours post , Again Go to the Edit HTML >> Click on “Expand widget templates” box and search for below line in template.

<p><data:post.body/></p>

Now Insert below code just after above line and save the template after inserting it you can preview the template also to see whether its is working fine or not.”Print Icon is visible only in individual post”

<div style='float:right;'>
<b:if cond='data:blog.pageType == "item"'>
<span
style='background: url(http://scrapur.com/image/print.gif) left no-repeat;
padding-left: 20px;'><a
href='javascript:window.print()'>Print this
post</a></span>
</b:if>

</div>

Above Hack creates a printer friendly version only in memory and directly submits it to the printer. The user is not able to see the electronic version of the print version unless he prints it to PDF using Acrobat or other PDF creation tools.I would like to Thanks Amanda for providing this code to enable printer Pages in blogs ,However there is a little edit in this code.