please make printer friendly recipes

[somervilleoldtimer]

I'm always intrigued with the daily recipes sent out by Chow, but I've stopped printing them to use them, because even the simplest recipe take three pages to print out. Can you please make a printer-friendly toggle? I promise to keep looking at the ads and pictures on line, I just don't want them on my printed recipe. Plus how am I going to fit three pages into my recipe book? I end up writing the recipe down in condensed form, if I want to keep it. That's a pain.

[Sam Fujisaka]

I've never felt the need to copy a whole thread, but yoiur concern made me curious. I copied this thread to Word, re-formatted to a different font and size, shifted all text to the left margin. It all came out clear and clean in about 10 seconds. You can do the same with recipes - even easier.

[kchurchill5]

I do the same all the time, just a quick copy and paste and usually just change the font to what I like for recipes 11, 10 is really long arial and then print. Simple and easy to read.

[Allstonian]

This is what I usually do as well - I like to twek the formatting a little, change font sizes, make the recipe title bold and so on, so it usually takes me a minute or two of grommong to get it the way I like it, but it works for me.

I've done the same with long threads, occasionally - usually when I'm visiting another city and want a compendium of local references - and it can be a bit time-consuming to do all the editing needed for something like that but I'm satisfied with the results.

[somervilleoldtimer]

Hey, teeny-tiny Chowhound creators -- we know you're there inside our computers. Would you please at least comment, if not promise to fix this problem?

[The Chowhound Team]

Jacquliynne, Community Manager for Chowhound, posted above, at http://chowhound.chow.com/topics/6358...

[somervilleoldtimer]

To Team and Jacquilynne: Thanks for responding. I will try to do highlighting and printing selection and let you know how that goes.

[Jacquilynne]

We really do want a better recipe printing format, and I'm told it might be coming soon. In the meantime, I find the best thing to do is highlight the ingredients and instructions, and then when you hit print in your browser, change the print option to "Selection". That way, you print only those parts of the page, and it'll usually fit on a single page.

-- Jacquilynne, Community Manager for Chowhound

[Sarah]

Maybe that'll work for a recipe or two, but it's impossible for a long thread re. select places to eat on a road trip or out of area (e.g. Kauai-20+posts)... you have to print out the entire post in huge typeface -- ridiculous. Why can't typeface be reduced or condensed?

[janniecooks]

you can always select multiple threads at one time to copy/paste into any text editor and print from there.

[ChinoWayne]

If you acquire a screen capture application such as Snagit, you can always use that to capture just the recipe info, save it as a jpg or pdf and then print. This technique also allows you to save and annotate the images.

[somervilleoldtimer]

I'm not very plugged in, so would you please explain more?

[ChinoWayne]

Check out Snagit here: http://www.techsmith.com/snagit/featu...

The attached photo is from Snagit, using the Region capture, this works only if your monitor/resolution is large enough so that the recipe does not scroll off the bottom.

(You might determine that the method Jacqueline describes will meet your needs, though.)

[Sarah]

I've been begging for years, to no avail... also any/all posts should not take up sooooo many pages, especially if you're traveling and want resto guides. They don't even acknowledge these requests.