Title: Feature request: Printable docs
Last modified: May 2, 2017

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# Feature request: Printable docs

 *  [Josh Rosenau](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kadymahinder/)
 * (@kadymahinder)
 * [9 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/feature-request-printable-docs/)
 * Hey Boone –
 * I have a use case that could be much improved if BP Docs could be printed nicely
   by generating a “text only” window for printing.
 * Dang business office still needs paper copies!!! Erg!!!
 * The user is a tribal college in Montana, which doesn’t have money for dev, unfortunately.
 * So I’m pleading poverty.

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 *  Plugin Author [David Cavins](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dcavins/)
 * (@dcavins)
 * [9 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/feature-request-printable-docs/#post-9090893)
 * If you’re familiar with the site structure, you can simply add a print stylesheet
   that basically hides everything but `.bp-docs-container` or `.doc-content` (whatever
   piece you need to print).
 * More info:
    [https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2011/11/how-to-set-up-a-print-style-sheet/](https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2011/11/how-to-set-up-a-print-style-sheet/)
   [https://css-tricks.com/print-stylesheet-approaches-blacklist-vs-whitelist/](https://css-tricks.com/print-stylesheet-approaches-blacklist-vs-whitelist/)
 * Best,
 * -David
 *  Plugin Author [Boone Gorges](https://wordpress.org/support/users/boonebgorges/)
 * (@boonebgorges)
 * [9 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/feature-request-printable-docs/#post-9094288)
 * David’s idea is a good one as a relatively quick fix.
 * I’ve had a similar request from clients before. I wonder if there’s an existing
   tool we can leverage for this – if only to introduce a one-click popup that’s
   styled in the way that David describes.
 *  Plugin Author [David Cavins](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dcavins/)
 * (@dcavins)
 * [9 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/feature-request-printable-docs/#post-9094747)
 * My preference, if we were going to work on something like this, would be to export
   to PDF using some customizable template parts, and leave it to the user to open
   the exported PDF and print it.
 * I don’t know of any lightweight, PHP-based PDF-output tool, though, that we could
   include in a plugin and expect to work in any server environment. It could be
   that new tools exist since the last time I looked.

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 * Last activity: [9 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/feature-request-printable-docs/#post-9094747)
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