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Ever tried to print a web page in your browser and it took forever because of all the graphics? Did you waste a bunch of ink on the background graphic? You've seen sites with the solution: printer friendly pages. Now you can offer it to your own visitors. And you don't have to maintain two separate pages. Just install the free Master PFP. It is a CGI program written with Perl 5 for Unix, Linux, and NT. Pick it up at http://willmaster.com/master/pfp/ This is what Master PFP does: When someone clicks on your link, the program reads the page and displays everything up to the body tag in a new browser window. Then it takes out all body tag attributes and specifies its own white background. The next part is the good part, because you specify exactly what should and should not be included on the printer friendly page. You do it with "begin" and "end" tag sets. You can specify as many tag sets as you want, allowing you to skip over navigation bars and such. You include only what you want to include. For graphics, you have alternatives: (1) You can let them be printed, (2) substitute "[image]" or any other words, or (3) you can have the program hide the graphics. The printer friendly page can have the URL of the original page (clickable) printed at the top and/or bottom of the printer friendly page. The printer friendly page is displayed with left and right margins, ready to be sent to your visitor's printer. You only need one file. The instructions are in the script. See a demonstration at the download page: http://willmaster.com/master/pfp/ Hope you can us it. Copyright 2000 by William Bontrager
William Bontrager, Programmer and Publisher
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