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[SOLVED] Print View Override

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10 years 3 weeks ago #133578 by Mr_Anonymous

[SOLVED] Print View Override was created by Mr_Anonymous

How do you override the print view? Is my only option is to edit the "components/com_k2/css/k2.print" file directly? I tried creating an override like "templates/mytemplate/html/com_k2/css/k2.print" and I dont think that works for print view. Can someone confirm this please...

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10 years 3 weeks ago #133579 by Krikor Boghossian

Replied by Krikor Boghossian on topic Re: Print View Override

It depends on the browser if it respects the print styles.
I personally add a new media query (@media print) in my template's stylesheet.

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10 years 3 weeks ago #133580 by Mr_Anonymous

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Thanks. I ended up using another solution for this. I added the print check condition directly with php like this to hide the sections that I dont want to come up in printing:

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10 years 3 weeks ago #133581 by Krikor Boghossian

Replied by Krikor Boghossian on topic Re: Print View Override

Yes this will also work.
Keep in mind that you might need a CSS solution as well, since Joomla!'s print button the browser's print button have a different result.

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10 years 3 weeks ago #133582 by Mr_Anonymous

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Yeah you are right... When I printed the page as pdf I noticed the difference since the pop-up layout was different from actual printed layout. Thanks for pointing that out. :)

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10 years 3 weeks ago #133583 by Krikor Boghossian

Replied by Krikor Boghossian on topic Re: Print View Override

You 're welcome :)

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5 years 9 months ago #171091 by Sori

Replied by Sori on topic [SOLVED] Print View Override

Hi,

Would you please let me know which file is correspondent for the print view?
I want to make a very neat print view but right now everything is included in it like an article.

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Sohrab

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5 years 9 months ago #171093 by Sori

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Hi,

How? can you provide an example please?

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5 years 9 months ago #171116 by JoomlaWorks

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The print view is a combination of the component.php subtemplate (it should exist inside /templates/YOUR_TEMPLATE/), the K2 template overrides and some CSS (k2.print.css - see my other post on how to override it - www.joomlaworks.net/forum/k2-en/37337-how-do-i-override-the-k2-print-css#132612).

The file component.php acts as a wrapper for the K2 template files (item.php to be exact).

Examine this page for example: demo.getk2.org/item?tmpl=component&print=1 (although we don't use any specific print styling here).

You can event create an entirely different section for the print view in K2's item.php by having a big if/else statement there. Shouldn't be too difficult to see how to do that as it exists already in item.php, for example here: github.com/getk2/k2/blob/master/components/com_k2/templates/default/item.php#L15

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