Tonight is the first time in my life I miss a function of Internet Explorer. I hate IE. I have a page with 1000 links to documents that I need to print, and no simple way to do it in Firefox 3. That is - NO WAY, except to click on them manually. At least, no way that I can find.
IE has an option on the print dialog that allows you to checkbox for “Print Linked Documents”
Tomorrow I’ll look at writing a plug-in to print linked documents.. a feature that Internet Exploder has had for a long time. Since I’ll never get around to writing it, I encourage you to ask me about it, or provide moral support… since I’ve never (before now) had to look at the FF API.
2 responses so far ↓
1 Russell L. // Jul 16, 2008 at 12:53 pm
I feel for you… just having come up with the same need, I hate the thought of having to use IE (and its pitiful printing) for anything.
2 Brianary // Aug 20, 2008 at 11:25 am
I could really use this extension, too. I’m surprised it hasn’t been written yet.
It could be that the FF security model makes promptless printing difficult or impossible, but maybe the approach is to build up a single page in script (with CSS page-breaks between) and prompt to print the whole thing.
I’d be happy to test or do some initial research for you, if you’d like. I’ve at least dabbled in Add-ons before.
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