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Simple issue: as is, when "print view" is invoked on a topic (click the 'spanner button' on header or footer), the result is a simplified page that includes only the posts shown originally -- i.e., the topic is broken into pages, each requiring their own print view.

Could this be amended to be comprehensive or, in other words, include the full topic?

I realize this might prove problematic with very long threads -- the one devoted to DropIt springs to mind -- but then there are few such topics and possibly they could be excluded if they go over a reasonable threshold.

I have seen this in plenty other forums and it would make it a lot more useful for my own purposes, namely archiving.

Are you saying that if a topic has say 60 posts paginated into 10 pages, the print view should be able to display all 60 posts?

Yes.

Mind you, it's not really for physically printing OFC but to generate a simplified single file HTML file suitable for archiving.

I doubt that even for physical printing those page breakdowns are all that useful -- there are lots of local (e.g., printing device) and remote variables (like post length and such) to be considered, IMHO.

+1

Midas wrote: ↑Thu Feb 13, 2020 7:19 am... to generate a simplified single file HTML file suitable for archiving.

and more capable local find in page.

and more capable local find in page

Isn't that a browser-end function i.e. Ctrl-F?

Yes. I meant it is another benefit of having everything on the same page. You don't have to depend on the site search tool or have to CTRL+F each page separately. You can even use regular expressions more easily.

Pretty sure stock phpBB doesn't have this feature.

I will search to see if there is an extension that implements this.

Thanks for your consideration.

There used to be a phpBB extension that does this for phpBB 3.0.x:

https://www.phpbb.com/customise/db/mod/ ... s_in_topic

Unfortnuately that extension was never ported over to phpBB 3.2.x.

Could this be useful?

https://www.phpbb.com/customise/db/exte ... s_per_page

Also see the discussion about it here: https://www.phpbb.com/customise/db/exte ... pic/213341

On a side note, a couple of extensions caught my attention if you want to give them a look :
https://www.phpbb.com/customise/db/extension/markdown/
https://www.phpbb.com/customise/db/extension/pages/

vevy wrote: ↑Tue Sep 15, 2020 7:29 pm Could this be useful?

https://www.phpbb.com/customise/db/exte ... s_per_page

OK, will add that to my todo.

Unfortunately, the extension in question is only available for a very old version of phpBB (V3.1.x), and the author did not release a newer version for 3.2 or 3.3.

I am quite certain extensions for V3.1.x would not carry over to newer versions, since I went through this exercise when I upgraded phpBB for the site a couple of years back.

The discussion link above is about this very thing. It apparently does work on 3.3