catalog in printable form

I need to make a catalog in printable form, but the form has no way to make a headline to show what the catalog is about.

1) We need a way to make headlines for the printable catalog

On every page the text "* Green text is "calculated" text. Calculated text is ........" comes up on the downside of the page, which is really annoying because it takes a lot of space.

2) Clean away uneccesary text on the outprint.

Please !

The way to clear the 'green text' bit is to go through your books and, in each field that has green text, double-click to edit it (or go to the Edit page) and either delete or save the data that's in there. If you just save without changing, the green text will go black (it will actually be in your library - your personal data - rather than being 'borrowed' in from other LT entries).

Depending on what you want to print, you may find it easier to export your data (on the More tab), open the file in Excel (or Calc, or whatever) and make a report or printout with exactly what you want on it. The only problem is that the exports don't have some data - I'm thinking particularly of covers and collections - that you might want to show, in which case the Print button is the only thing available.

I suspect that IaaS is objecting to the line at the bottom of the page about green text, not to the actual green text itself.

3: staffordcastle; Yes. The txt-line at the bottom of the page which has nothing there to do in an outprint.

2: jjmcgaffey; And no, it should not be neccesary to make the catalog in an other program. I could have transferred it to Word to keep the covers, but what is the point with that?

It should be easy to let us make a headline to the Catalog and to avoid the txt-line at the bottom to be seen.

Yes, but if there's no green text on the page, the green text line at the bottom disappears. So if you clean out even one page of your library, you'll save that space...

I actually use the appearance of that line of text to tell me that there's some green text on that page that I need to clean up.

OK, just checked, and that doesn't apply in the print form. It's true for the library. I've never printed my library (it's just too big!), so not familiar with the form - sorry.

4> Yeah, well. You posted in the right group - it would be nice, for those people who want a simple printout of their catalog, if they could format it as they please. But there are a lot of people who wouldn't find that useful, and there are a lot of features that are closer to the base function of the site than prettying up the printout. Particularly because every person would have their own idea of exactly what's needed for the prettying up (you want a headline and to eliminate the green text; someone else might want subgroups by categories; someone else...).

I'd be happy if the printable version looked more like the previous format. I print out packing lists for boxes of books. They used to run 2-3 pages. With the current format, they are twice as long, unless I shrink it down to about 50%. That's right on the edge of unreadable.

I do not think you fully understand what simple thing I ask about.

I want a headline telling the Catalogs name,

and I want the damned green line not to show up on the printout.

I have more than 6000 books I can not check what green print the program has generated inside every book, if you take the generated text away it keeps coming up again.

I have a workaround to the footer for you, IaaS. No solution for the Catalog name.

First off, use Firefox for your printing. That's necessary for the next step.

Install the Stylish addon for Firefox. You can get it here.

Stylish is a 3rd-party addon for Firefox that is not made or officially supported by LibraryThing. Any problems with it are not their fault. However, I will vouch for it being a great addon that appears to be bug-free to my eyes.

Once you've restarted Firefox, go here to install a Stylish style I uploaded. Just click on Install with Stylish.

Once that's installed, the next time you go the print page it will scrub out that footer.

I might write something more complicated that might let you have the catalog name on top at a later point. But right now, this is a quick easy way to get rid of the footer.

Hope this helps.

Note: This script assumes you are using www.librarything.com, which I believe is true. If you are using a different language site there will need to be some slight modifications. ETA: The script should now handle all the different forms of LT.

ETA: Actually, there is a workaround for the catalog name, too, if you use Firefox (other browsers will probably let you do this, too). In Firefox, choose File->Page Setup. Click on the Margins and Header/Footer tab. There you can set a custom Header or Footer and then print your catalog. Be sure to change it back afterwards or it will show up on all your Firefox printouts.

Thank you for your help and advice, I think this to be a bit too much, but thanks anyway. Hope the programmers can fix this eventually.

A bit much? It takes a grand total of six clicks starting with my link to get rid of the green footer. To add your own header, it takes seven clicks. And none of them actually require any decision making, other than I suppose text you want as your header.

The thing is, the programmers aren't going to fix it because it's not broken. It's working exactly as they planned it. They might eventually listen to your complaints that it's too cluttered, but it's been difficult to get them to fix basic features like touchstones as they just don't have the staffing levels. And there hasn't been much of a clamor for changes to printing, unlike many other bugs and features.

My personal guess is that it will be at least a year before they change this. And I'm skeptical it will get changed even then.

Not trying to be harsh on you or anything, just trying to give you what in my opinion is a realistic picture.

The bit too much is to change program, not what to do with it. I really am grateful for you to try to teach me.

Ohhh, ok. It's not really a big deal. I didn't mean you'd need to change it; I can do it no problem. I just needed to add in all the various sites for the different language version of LT.

I've done it now and updated my script. So if you follow the instructions now, it should work for you. Just let me know if it doesn't work.

I think he means change to Firefox, though it took me a while to figure that out. (Change to Firefox? You mean people actually use other browsers?)

Well, if so, that's really just too bad. All his problems could be solved incredibly simply. He doesn't even have to continue using Firefox beyond printing.

Firefox, new program, I do not know anybody who use it.
For now I am pretty busy upgrading Archicad13, and it do not work properly yet. Puuh.
Tomorow I do the next machine, maybee it works there. So the Firefox has to wait some time.

Really, these days most web browsers look almost identical. For something like just going to a URL and printing, Firefox is really no different than IE or Safari or Chrome or whatever. Everything that you would need to know that is Firefox-specific (installing Stylish, changing the print headers, etc.) I've already spelled out above. About the only thing I have done is link to where you can download Firefox. Here ya go. That's even the Norwegian version, too. :)

Thanks, I will look into it when finsihed with my workmachines.