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		On Tue, 20 Nov 2001, James Gaisford wrote:


> Anyone know how to specify a pdf as an alternative print document for a web
> page.
>
> For a word doc you enter the following;
>
> link rel="alternate" type="print" href="path/path/yourdoc.DOC"
>
> I thought this would work by using exactly the same format...
>
> link rel="alternate" type="print" href="path/path/yourdoc.PDF"
>
> but this doesn't work.
>
> Anyone any ideas?

Hrm.  I didn't know you could actually do this.  Smells a bit
explorer-only to me :).  Do you have the .pdf filetype associated with the
reader?  Ie. if you try to load up path/path/yourdoc.PDF directly does it
work?

I would personally just put a link on the page saying 'Printer friendly
version' and link to the PDF file.  We do a similar thing on most of our
sites, since we use a content management system for everything, you can
produce a printer friendly version of the page content in which all the
navigation, ads, etc. are removed.

-Matt

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