[OSM-talk] can't print from wiki

[Milo van der Linden]

More tips and tricks on getting wiki pages better fit for printing:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Printable


Margie Roswell wrote:
> This printing issues on wiki.openstreetmap.org have not been addressed.
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> Who can fix this?
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> Andy did some great troubleshooting last week.
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> Can we make the openstreetmap.org wiki printable? Please??
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> Margie
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> On Thu, Jan 28, 2010 at 6:09 PM, Andy Allan <gravitystorm at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> On Thu, Jan 28, 2010 at 6:46 PM, Margie Roswell <mroswell at gmail.com> wrote:
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>>> Can anyone figure this out, and enable straightforward printing on
>>> http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/JOSM/Guide, and similarly-affected
>>> pages?
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>> The problem is that we are including the screen styles more than once,
>> and the second time it's after the print style is defined.
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>> Section A:
>>                <style type="text/css" media="screen, projection">/*<![CDATA[*/
>>                        @import "/skins/common/shared.css?164";
>>                        @import "/skins/monobook/main.css?164";
>>                /*]]>*/</style>
>> Section B:
>>                <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" media="print"
>> href="/skins/common/commonPrint.css?164" />
>> Section C:
>>                <style type="text/css">/*<![CDATA[*/
>> @import "/index.php?title=MediaWiki:Common.css&usemsgcache=yes&action=raw&ctype=text/css&smaxage=18000";
>> @import "/index.php?title=MediaWiki:Monobook.css&usemsgcache=yes&action=raw&ctype=text/css&smaxage=18000";
>> @import "/index.php?title=-&action=raw&gen=css&maxage=18000&useskin=monobook";
>> /*]]>*/</style>
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>> The inclusion of section C without any media type is overwriting parts
>> of the commonPrint.css and messing with the margins, making every page
>> unprintable. When I remove this element (using Firebug in Firefox) the
>> printing is much improved. It messes up the display of the language
>> bar, so I wonder if it's been put there to make the language chooser
>> work.
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>> Anyway, it's a problem, and hopefully this will help one of the devs
>> figure out what's gone wrong. I've printed plenty from the wiki in the
>> past, so I suspect something has changed.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Andy
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