One of us, John Pye, has developed a prototype of a Campsite extension
called the print box (you'll already see a post of Braja's to this list
refering to it).
Here is what John had to say (I am writing this because he is away this
week):
"Here is a first version of printbox with all the features working far as
I can tell.
I've set it up to work nicely with bbc.co.uk's newsfeed, so you can see
how the 'add current edition' stuff works now. At the moment it's set up
to add all articles from the current edition by default, this can be
turned off and made a deliberate option. (There are some sports articles
in the BBC feed that don't print out so nicely but most are fine, I just
haven't set it all up 100%)
It also knows how to automatically convert TOLs articles into printable
form, and decko articles too.
You can also now remove individual items from the printbox and also
print just a subset of the items.
It works on windows with Moz 1.7, IE 6 and Opera 7 and Lynx. I also
checked it works in Mozilla with javascript turned off. It would be
worth testing it on a Mac, I don't have access to one though. Also needs
testing again in Linux.
Hopefully the instructions there are straighforward enough that you can
get it working with Campsite quite easily. Note that I made some
comments in the README.txt about authentication. I think that could be
an issue possibly.
Ahh, I spoke too soon about ; looks like John's already got separate CSS
stylesheets for print and screen, which is excellent. As long as those
files are in a place where designers can get their ink-stained fingers on
them, we'll be great.
One of us, John Pye, has developed a prototype of a Campsite extension
called the print box (you'll already see a post of Braja's to this list
refering to it).
Here is what John had to say (I am writing this because he is away this
week):
"Here is a first version of printbox with all the features working far as
I can tell.
I've set it up to work nicely with bbc.co.uk's newsfeed, so you can see
how the 'add current edition' stuff works now. At the moment it's set up
to add all articles from the current edition by default, this can be
turned off and made a deliberate option. (There are some sports articles
in the BBC feed that don't print out so nicely but most are fine, I just
haven't set it all up 100%)
It also knows how to automatically convert TOLs articles into printable
form, and decko articles too.
You can also now remove individual items from the printbox and also
print just a subset of the items.
It works on windows with Moz 1.7, IE 6 and Opera 7 and Lynx. I also
checked it works in Mozilla with javascript turned off. It would be
worth testing it on a Mac, I don't have access to one though. Also needs
testing again in Linux.
Hopefully the instructions there are straighforward enough that you can
get it working with Campsite quite easily. Note that I made some
comments in the README.txt about authentication. I think that could be
an issue possibly.
Ahh, I spoke too soon about ; looks like John's already got separate CSS stylesheets for print and screen, which is excellent. As long as those files are in a place where designers can get their ink-stained fingers on them, we'll be great.