Another thing I’ve been meaning to add to this website for a long time is printer friendly versions of pages … and I’ve finally done it.

Near the bottom of many pages (not all, just ones that someone might want to print) there is now a “Printer-friendly version” link which creates (via Perl script) a version of the page that is better formatted for printing. Content is the same, but the navigation column and Google search footer are removed, and the width is varied to fit the printed page so nothing is cut off. It wont work on these blog pages, but I’ll try to fix that another time.

Update (Oct’07): I’ve replaced this method with a print style sheet. Any page will now print in a “printer friendly” manner simply by hitting Print - no need to find a printer friendly version of the page first.