Category: print-o-matic

In the case of a large gallery of images, it could happen that a page break would split images across pages.
For example, what happens when this gallery is printed?

This is a test for printing various forms using Print-O-Matic and Print-Pro-Matic plugins.

Ninja Forms with Success Message

Google Form

[wpgform id=’2769′]

Print

As of version 1.6.7c we introduced a new printstyle value ‘external’ for Print-O-Matic. Now it is possible to create an external button to trigger a print in a less-hacky way. Here is an example of this works: To print the following div with an id of ‘print_me_please’:

<div id="print_me_please">This is our target print element</div>

First we create a kind of roll-your-own print trigger. The details that must be included are:

1. a unique id
2. a print-o-matic class such as printomatic or printomatictext
3. a data-print_target attribute

For example:

<button id="my_print_button" class="printomatic" data-print_target="#print_me_please">Print Trigger</button>

Which will output:

Print Trigger

The final thing we need to do is include a hidden print trigger using a print-me shortcode with the same id as our external trigger and the new external printstyle attribute. This shortcode must be placed someplace on the same page, and will load in all the required scripts and settings to make the print trigger work correctly.

[print-me id="my_print_button" printstyle="external"/]

This shortcode will not output anything to the page.
That’s it. You are done! Let us know on the WordPress Support Forum if you require any further assistance.

This is a quick test to inject a logo at the top of a print-pro-matic page using only css.
In this case, the print element has a class of #post-2182 and it is targeted as normal:

[print-me target="#post-2182"]

However now we add the following css to the Custom Print Page Style in the plugin options page:

#post-2182::before {
   content: url(https://spacedonkey.de/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/ninja_turtles-300x223.jpg);
}

This will place the logo in the ::before pseudo class of the targeted print element. Let’s try it out:

Of course, with Print-Pro-Matic, if you want to add the logo to EVERY print page, you can simply use the Print Page Top HTML field to place any html, including images, in the upper part of the print page.

Keep in mind: When working with images that where not available on the display page (and therefore in the users cache) a bit of pause before print time will be needed to give the image time to load before triggering the print dialogue box.

This is how one uses the %ID% placeholder for targeting the post_id

[print-me target="#post-%ID%"/]