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Created August 27, 2014 18:50
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Delay implementing a PDF rendering feature by beating Chrome into submission instead
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layout.html.erb
<%= stylesheet_link_tag "application", :media => "screen,print" %>
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style.sass
@media print
@page
margin: 6px 24px 6px 24px // make the margins so tight that user agents will not print headers/footers
body
-webkit-print-color-adjust: exact // print background colors in chrome
font-size: 12px // decrease size to fit more per page
a
text-decoration: none //print links as normal text
color: black
.page-break
page-break-after: always //anything with the class .page-break can break the page
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searls commented Aug 27, 2014

This landed my feature with a close-enough-to-perfect print view that the users can just Cmd-P + Save as PDF instead of adding a server side feature to emulate the same thing

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