Print out this website

[Bruno Blitz]

Good day,

is there a button or something to print out a opic of this webside?

I travel a lot with the train and i like to read without electricity 🙂

 

Browser Firefox 68

[WanderingAries]

Take screenshots maybe?

[Hyperstrike]

Unfortunately, with the rather extreme formatting imposed on the site, it's essentially unprintable in a non-garbaged-up format.
This is pretty much true of anything more than VERY basic HTML sites.
They're essentially completely non-portable.

[Shenanigunner]

Not just formatting, but hundreds of separate entries across dozens of topic streams and multiple pages.

 

I hadn't thought about this for a long time, and my roots do go back to printing out things like listservs, but... Can't Be Done.

 

Not even sure if there's a way to download the contents for offline reading, on say a tablet or something.

[TemporalVileTerror]

I would expect most browsers to have a Save Page function.  At least Opera and ancient Internet Explorer do.

But printing it out?  Talk about a MAJOR waste of paper.  Yikes.
I would recommend seeing if someone would be willing to author a script for you which trawls through the website and saves threads in to offline HTML packs, then view them on a tablet or e-reader.  That's probably the most environmentally friendly AND efficient method.

[Luminara]

7 hours ago, TemporalVileTerror said:

I would expect most browsers to have a Save Page function.  At least Opera and ancient Internet Explorer do.

But printing it out?  Talk about a MAJOR waste of paper.  Yikes.
I would recommend seeing if someone would be willing to author a script for you which trawls through the website and saves threads in to offline HTML packs, then view them on a tablet or e-reader.  That's probably the most environmentally friendly AND efficient method.

 

Pretty sure the paper, ink and electricity used would cost more than a Dollar Store phone and $30 pre-paid card.

 

On the other hand, reading the entire site on paper would give you the opportunity to put a cassette tape into your Walkman and play back the dial-up modem sounds so you could really feel the '80's vibe.

[starro]

Is this a nemesis plot?

[Shadowsleuth]

Perhaps some time in the future (when the schedule allows) the web developer for the site could implement the advice in this article.

 

https://smallbusiness.chron.com/make-webpage-printable-47225.html

 

 

This would be a low priority quality of life feature (that would be nice to have), no pressing need to put off other projects to do this right now.

[Marine X]

I have one of the original game manuals and have considered scanning it to PDF, it is rather outdated but contains useful information. But also a piece of game history.

[Faultline]

The forums use Invision, which doesn't appear to have a dedicated print function or a print plugin. https://invisioncommunity.com/files/category/160-applications-and-plugins/

 

They seem pretty sure that the print function of the browser is sufficient for the job.

[Cipher]

On 5/24/2021 at 10:30 AM, Bruno Blitz said:

Good day,

is there a button or something to print out a opic of this webside?

I travel a lot with the train and i like to read without electricity 🙂

 

Browser Firefox 68

 

Since you mentioned using Firefox:

 

Press Ctrl + Shift + S and click Save full page in the top-right. This will allow you to save a properly rendered full snapshot of the page as an image which you can then print. It's not perfect and you can only do one page at a time, but unfortunately there aren't many options for this otherwise at this time.

 

Edit: For better contrast / less colour, you can switch to the default theme at the bottom of the page:

[WanderingAries]

True, @Cipher, just about Every browser allows you to download an entire, single, webpage. Unfortunately, you wouldn't be able to automatically download the linked pages without Also saving them as well. I could do this thread page in Edge simply by using "Command + S" on a Mac. It'll create a main file with a related folder for the assets when you choose full page. There is also a single file option as well, but I never had the need to test that.

[Bruno Blitz]

Thank you for the answer!