Re: [Talk-GB] printing from website

2009-07-16 Thread Chris Fleming
On 15/07/09 19:36, Nicholas Barnes wrote: Tom Hughes wrote: Page splits will be entirely dependent on the size of your browser window Unless the 'print' link generated a PDF, of course! Except this is overkill in most cases when you just want a quick print out. As a user if I

Re: [Talk-GB] printing from website

2009-07-16 Thread Nicholas Barnes
Chris Fleming wrote: Except this is overkill in most cases when you just want a quick print out. Yes. It was said with tongue planted firmly in cheek... Is there a smiley for that? :-J perhaps? Nick. ___ Talk-GB mailing list

Re: [Talk-GB] printing from website

2009-07-15 Thread Nicholas Barnes
Tom Hughes wrote: Page splits will be entirely dependent on the size of your browser window Unless the 'print' link generated a PDF, of course! Nick. ___ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org

Re: [Talk-GB] printing from website

2009-07-14 Thread Bob Kerr
considerations need to be thought about. Cheers Bob --- On Mon, 13/7/09, WessexMario wessexmario-...@yahoo.co.uk wrote: From: WessexMario wessexmario-...@yahoo.co.uk Subject: Re: [Talk-GB] printing from website To: talk-gb OSM List (E-mail) talk-gb@openstreetmap.org Date: Monday, 13 July, 2009, 1:57 PM

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 and

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] 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 page,

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 is printed

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

Re: [Talk-GB] printing from website

2009-07-13 Thread Steve Hill
On Sun, 12 Jul 2009, Jack Stringer wrote: Something that tells you that trick. I'm not sure that clicking on your browser's print button in order to print the thing you're currently looking at in the browser qualifies as a trick does it? Seems like SOP for anyone using a computer to me? -

Re: [Talk-GB] printing from website

2009-07-13 Thread Jack Stringer
Not all websites are not as well designed as OSM. Often when you click print you get 2 blank pages plus 3 with the adverts on them and 1 page of the map, cut right in half on the area you wanted to see. Jack Stringer ___ Talk-GB mailing list

Re: [Talk-GB] printing from website

2009-07-13 Thread WessexMario
Mario Caves wrote: I agree with Jack on this one, I'm a long in the tooth IT pro and as choosing the browser print option is often a waste of paper, it took me months before I found out how well OSM formatted the browser print option, so a 'print this map' link/icon/tag/button would go a

[Talk-GB] printing from website

2009-07-12 Thread Daniel Glassey
I don't think I expressed myself clearly in the lazyosm session.[1] I would like to see a simple 'Print' button or tab . This tab would show something like the walking-papers.org 'Make a Print interface' centered on current point at current zoom. So that a regular someone coming to the website

Re: [Talk-GB] printing from website

2009-07-12 Thread Chris Hill
If you use your browser's print option you get a full page (on landscape) map of the current zoom area. What else would you like to see? Cheers, Chris Daniel Glassey wrote: I don't think I expressed myself clearly in the lazyosm session.[1] I would like to see a simple 'Print' button or

Re: [Talk-GB] printing from website

2009-07-12 Thread Jack Stringer
2009/7/12 Chris Hill chillly...@yahoo.co.uk: If you use your browser's print option you get a full page (on landscape) map of the current zoom area.  What else would you like to see? Cheers, Chris Something that tells you that trick. Does anyone currently offer a service to print OSM for