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Re: Printed Manual

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ohiolyons wrote:
Wed Aug 05, 2020 8:56 pm
It is the circle in the upper right hand corner with 3 dots. Hover over it and it will say Custom and Control Google Chrome.

Of course it does NOT work nor does Ctrl P. You can not do a ctrl P and print the whole manual!
Not everyone uses Chrome hence why the reference was causing confusion. I use Edge, Opera and Firefox. The other poster was using Firefox.

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The new Help pages are frame based and most browsers don't support printing the entire contents of a frame natively. It was possible until recently to use the context menu to open a frame in a new tab but Google removed that option from Chrome (and all Chromium based browsers) but you can get the functionality back by installing an extension.

A workaround that doesn't involve installing extensions is to drag select the text at the top of the Single Page frame and then press Ctrl-Shift-End to continue the selection to the bottom of all the pages in one go. Now when you print (or use the Windows Save as PDF) option it will print/save the entire selection rather than just the visible frame.

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ohiolyons wrote:
Wed Aug 05, 2020 8:56 pm
It is the circle in the upper right hand corner with 3 dots. Hover over it and it will say Custom and Control Google Chrome.

Of course it does NOT work nor does Ctrl P. You can not do a ctrl P and print the whole manual!
I guess Firefox doesn't have the 3 dots. Bummer.....
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dmthomson wrote:
Thu Aug 06, 2020 5:16 pm
I guess Firefox doesn't have the 3 dots. Bummer.....
All it is a menu which has options on it one of which is Print. In Firefox the three bar menu at the top right does exactly the same thing or, as posted earlier, you can press Ctrl-P.

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Manual? I do not need no stinking manual!!!! Heck, I cannot even read, so I would need one with pictographs.
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Re: Printed Manual

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Hi All,

Just an FYI that we've updated the manuals which should mean that they are printable in one go now. It takes an age to preview the print on my PC but it does eventually get there :)

Cheers,
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AdamJ wrote:
Fri Aug 07, 2020 8:17 pm
Hi All,

Just an FYI that we've updated the manuals which should mean that they are printable in one go now. It takes an age to preview the print on my PC but it does eventually get there :)

Cheers,
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Seems to be working now on everything I've tried except for Opera.

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Thank You. Works in Chrome.
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FYI make sure you have background graphics option on.
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