Waukegan Public School District 60
Web Central

Print-Friendly Feature

A feature that Manila offers is the Print-Friendly feature. With this feature, pages that you want to print would be available without all the extra graphics.

The printFriendlyLink macro

To add a link to a print-friendly version of pages in your site, use the printFriendlyLink macro. You can put it in your template or in particular stories.

Wherever you want the link to appear, type:

{printFriendlyLink ("Print-Friendly version of this Page")}

Using the macro on this story produces:

Print-Friendly version of this page

You can replace the text in quotes with whatever text you want to appear as the link. You can also use a graphic instead of text to alert people to a printable page. Before you do this you most post a picture on your site. Then follow the instructions below.

I posted a picture called "Print This Page 2". (You can copy it for use on your site if you like.) To include this in a story, type:

{printFriendlyLink(pictureRef("Print This Page 2"))}

You will end up with this result.

Viewing print-friendly pages

You can view a print-friendly version of a story on someone else's Manila site even if they're not using the printFriendlyLink macro. Just take the URL and add ?print-friendly=true to the end of it. For instance, a URL like

http://www.waukeganschools.org/webcentral/tutorials/PrintFriendly

would become

http://www.waukeganschools.org/webcentral/tutorials/PrintFriendly?print-friendly=true

To view a print-friendly version of this page click here.