Re: [Talk-GB] printing from website

2009-07-14 Thread Bob Kerr
I agree a decent link near the permalink area for printing would help a lot. Printing extra pages is annoying too and should be taken into consideration as well, a trap that i've seen happen a lot is that the output is formatted for the US letter format and not A4, so local country consideration

Re: [Talk-GB] printing from website

2009-07-14 Thread Tom Hughes
On 14/07/09 09:12, Bob Kerr wrote: > I agree a decent link near the permalink area for printing would help a > lot. Printing extra pages is annoying too and should be taken into > consideration as well, a trap that i've seen happen a lot is that the > output is formatted for the US letter format a

Re: [Talk-GB] printing from website

2009-07-14 Thread OJ W
In firefox, the 'view image' -> 'print preview' commands on a static map works very well -- the map image is scaled by firefox to fit whatever paper you are using. Of course, the resolution of the image doesn't necessarily match that of your printer...

Re: [Talk-GB] printing from website

2009-07-14 Thread Chris Fleming
On 14/07/09 12:07, OJ W wrote: > In firefox, the 'view image' -> 'print preview' commands on a static > map works very well -- the map image is scaled by firefox to fit > whatever paper you are using. > > Of course, the resolution of the image doesn't necessarily match that > of your printer... >

Re: [Talk-GB] The DfT Cycle journey planner / CycleStreets

2009-07-14 Thread Martin - CycleStreets
Nice to meet you all at SOTM! Peter Miller wrote: > OSM coverage of cycle demonstration towns is pretty good already and it > would be truly weird for the Cambridgeshire County Council to pay for > someone to survey Cambridge! As a resident of Cambridge, I can tell you that such mapping is

Re: [Talk-GB] printing from website

2009-07-14 Thread Tom Hughes
On 14/07/09 18:21, Chris Fleming wrote: > I find that the print in firefox works very well. The print stylesheet > ensures that only the required parts of the page get printed. The only > caveat, is that if I switch from portrait to landscape mode then the > attribution is printed on the second pa

Re: [Talk-GB] printing from website

2009-07-14 Thread David Earl
Tom Hughes wrote: > On 14/07/09 18:21, Chris Fleming wrote: > >> I find that the print in firefox works very well. The print stylesheet >> ensures that only the required parts of the page get printed. The only >> caveat, is that if I switch from portrait to landscape mode then the >> attribution i

Re: [Talk-GB] printing from website

2009-07-14 Thread David Earl
Tom Hughes wrote: > That's entirely a browser thing though, so different browsers may not do > exactly the same thing. Curiously, IE8 produces 3 (!) pages in landscape, but all map - the area you were seeing plus 1.5 pages worth to the south - BUT omits the attribution completely. David

Re: [Talk-GB] printing from website

2009-07-14 Thread Tom Hughes
On 14/07/09 21:10, David Earl wrote: > That's my experience in printing from Firefox too - a single sheet with > one line. (Doesn't it reformat the map to fill the page as it would on > screen, hence making this inevitable?) The map you get is exactly the same map you see on screen at the time t