[WEB4LIB] handout printing tips

[Marsha Miller]

for years we have used a simple product i first found in the paperdirect
catalog called Clickbook, available from bluesquirrel. we started using
it to print booklets [it automatically printed out from our double-sided
copier ready to staple but you can set other printing settings]. as
technological demands increased so did this product. now you can save
one or more!!! web pages into a booklet, handout, etc. you can save the
result as a re-printable document or you can create a new document on
demand. it is amazing and not expensive. it doesn't format it; you set
up the formatting and then it fits the document into whatever printing
item [full page, booklet, brochure, etc.] you choose. it has never let
me down.
http://www.bluesquirrel.com/
 
 
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Marsha Miller
Reference/Instruction Department
Indiana State University
Terre Haute IN 47809
812 237 2606
812 237 2567 [fax]
http://library.indstate.edu
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>>> Nina McHale <nlm25 at georgetown.edu> 9/3/2004 12:52:23 PM >>>

Greetings, all,

Can anyone share some tips about making web documents print neatly as 
8.5 x 11 handouts?  We maintain a couple dozen subject guides and we're

reconsidering the format. The current web format of the guides, which 
print fine on 8.5 x 11, looks like this:

http://www.library.georgetown.edu/guides/africanamerican/index.htm

And we're considering switching to this to make them match the template

of our website:

http://www.library.georgetown.edu/guides/chemistry/index.htm

Mozilla's "shrink to fit" option truncates the images, and I'd prefer
to 
avoid a browser-specific fix, anyway.  We also don't want to maintain 
both an HTML and a .pdf file for each guide.  Is there something simple

in the code of our current format (I wasn't here when they were 
designed) that makes them word wrap neatly onto a print copy?

Reply to me, and I'll summarize if there's interest. 

Thanks in advance,

Nina

Nina McHale
Reference Librarian/Web Services Coordinator
Lauinger Library
Georgetown University





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