Printing Responsive Gantry websites Joomal 3.2+
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- edesigninc
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With the advent of responsive design we have been experiencing more issues with faithfully and simply creating a print file from the websites designed with gantry and any new framework.
Case in point. We designed a beautiful site using the spectral template but when the client printed it to offer her edits it was a "hot mess", copy clipping and many issues he was not expecting.
We ended up modifying the print feature to accommodate and force the view to a vertical responsive style to mimic an 8.5 x 11 print.
We are lucky we have a php coder on staff but for al those folks building their own sites or for newbies like we were a few years back this could haev killed our budgets. Greta products and gantry just gets better but as I was suprised by the print feature, has anyone else had issues. Is there a way to modify the print feature to be sure we find a common width?
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- Damir
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- Well its hard to make a site that would be good on desktop and on paper, you could advise your client to take a screenshot next time that way it will have exact look of the website.
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- edesigninc
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That is not gonna work for these clients. (picky picky picky ... "My old wordpress template looked great when printed"...)They expect a print page that is formatted nicely and does not have odd gaps or stacking that leave huge gaps.
I am realizing now.... we just need to think about a print.css(or set of code) file that would coordinate with the gantry layouts.
We do make full use of custom.css and for most issues it solves 85% of all issues.. but of course as an ongoing architecture it would be helpful if support was built in.
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- Damir
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- Well maybe the dev team will put it in the next big version of Gantry Framework you could put a request in the request forum www.rockettheme.com/forum/index.php?f=16&rb_v=viewforum
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- Ben Lee
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- Why not just print to PDF. Picky people should really get the correct software if its something they need that bad. Here's this topic just printing to Adobe PDF. You'll see the test shadows look a little weird, but overall, its the page just as it is.
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