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Any part of a lesson will automatically have a print version available, with a PRINT box in Pick-a-box, and a SIMPLE button in the sidebar and page end. Please read Page States for an explanation of print version availability.
This all happens automatically through the style sheets and javascript. However, when you create a page, you need to design it so that the automatic print version will be acceptable.
The main principle is to keep the page content simple. What's in the banner, sidebar, and footer is of no concern, because none of that appears in a print version. You are concerned, however, with objects on the right hand side of the page.
Toward the end of 2009, I decided to set up a system so that print-friendly versions were available to the user at the click of a button at the end of the article and also in the sidebar —with a box in pick-a-box also available serving the same purpose as the button.
The first and most common is the page stripped of all but the text of the article with headings and perhaps a small right hand column. This version is generated by the browser's print command, and may be viewed in the browser's print preview. A similar but slightly better version is generated by using the SIMPLE button at the end of the article or in the sidebar. This too can be viewed in the browser's print preview.
The second is a pdf document. For example some lessons are presented in tract form. All you have to do is add the variable Ppdf to the control script in the document head, alongside FName and possibly Alias —and you give the file name to the variable such as Ppdf="p560.pdf"; for example. This will automatically cause the PRINT box in Pick-a-Box to a link to the document. It will also automatically cause a red PRINT button to appear next to the SIMPLE button.