Oxygen Web Author print setup

[bwalters]

I would like to know how you change the headers and footers when printing from the Oxygen XML Web Author version 20.1.1.

Thanks for your help,
Bruce

[cristi_talau]

Hello,

The print functionality in Web Author delegates to the browser CSS support for paged media [1]. Unfortunately, it seems that Chrome for example does not support controlling header / footer. In the header it prints the window title and in the footer it prints the URL. There is an option in the print menu to hide them.

What kind of customization do you want to perform?

Best,
Cristian

[1] https://www.w3.org/TR/css-page-3/

[bwalters]

I see and thanks for the W3C link.

I was wondering if elements in the header/footer could be rearranged or certain ones eliminated.

Bruce

[bwalters]

Hello,
While watching the Creating Oxygen Frameworks webinar (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IKad8o-qUeM) I am thinking that maybe a transformation scenario to create a PDF of the document would be a better solution than printing to PDF.

Is this something that can be used in the XML Web Author?

Thanks as always for your input,
Bruce

[cristi_talau]

Hello,

Having a transformation to PDF would be a good alternative. However, we do not currently have such an option for Web Author. I added your vote for this feature request.

An workaround would be for you to setup a Continuous Integration server (e.g. Jenkins) that publishes to PDF each time a file is saved to the file server. Users will just have to download the latest PDF.

Best,
Cristian

[cristi_talau]

I am updating this that to let you know that Oxygen XML Web Author version 23 was released it now contains functionality that lets you download the document as PDF. The Print action was also updated to convert the document to PDF first. The PDF output is customizable with CSS. [1]

For more details about this release you can check out the what's new page: https://www.oxygenxml.com/xml_web_author/whats_new.html .

Best,
Cristian

[1] https://www.oxygenxml.com/doc/versions/ ... pport.html