Printer friendly

[Square Wheels]

Where do I turn on the printer friendly option?  In 3.x there was a printer icon at the bottom that would print the entire thread without ads, avatars, logos...  I can't see where to turn that back on.

Please don't tell me that was removed too.

[Square Wheels]

Still wondering how to do this.

[Square Wheels]

Still hoping for a response???

[EmpireKicking]

no idea

[Jim M]

There is no printer friendly version built into the software.

[Square Wheels]

2 minutes ago, Jim M said:

There is no printer friendly version built into the software.

That is very disappointing to hear that this too was removed.

Are there plans to add it back?

[Jim M]

10 minutes ago, Square Wheels said:

That is very disappointing to hear that this too was removed.

Are there plans to add it back?

Not at the moment. 

None-the-less, a simplified "print-version" can be fairly easily added in via CSS (add media="print" to the CSS stylesheet include). The print-version was rarely used in 3.x so in order to remove unneeded bulk, it was removed. There was a topic a while back explaining the reason further if you wish to look.

My personal opinion: the IPS4 design isn't as bulky as 3.x so it can be easily printed.

[Square Wheels]

I suspect it's more than that though.  The one we had printed without the avatars, menus, ads, and more important if the thread was more than 1 page it printed it all.  Now it will print very messy.

[sudo]

I had to block vb print view from guests as content skimmers were using that view to make their lives easier. Just a thought...

It didnt make their life that much easier but it was a easy way to write a skimmer and pull content from any vb based site as the print view was pretty standard across them all.