printing mini route guides with photos

So far, I've been unhappy including pictures in mini guides, as they are often duplicated (route picture in several of the routes for example) and sometimes ones I don't want get included. What I found myself doing was printing a guide with no pictures then printing the pictures I wanted separately.

It works but, it seems some method to select the pictures to include would be useful. One thought was to add thumbnails and selection boxes to the mini guide selection page, and maybe change it to skip redundant images. Another thought was to make the image removable on the mini guide page itself.

So, this post is a request for more control over what images print. Also I can help out with work for this if the powers that be decide something should be improved here.

Ending this post here - and will follow up with a simple solution in another post after I do a little more testing.

I have had a very similar experience where in certain sections of the website there are a lot of "beta" photos that are repeated especially for certain Bouldering areas.

What I did as a work around was unclick the problems that had the same beta photos which worked well but still leaves that specific problems info out of the print-out.

My suggestion is that if there was one more step in the process then it would really make it sweet.

For example:
- Click on "Print a Mini-Guide - Includes Routes!"
- Select all the routes, comments, photos that you want (same process as today)
- NEW STEP: Then it takes you to a new screen similar to the printer friendly screen, however there are checkmarks for each Route name, Photo, and comment that is listed for every detail. Therefore one can unselect any unnecessary info.
- Then push Print Preview button and kabam! you are good to go.

An example of an area I tried this out at was: mountainproject.com/v/color…

I love seeing photos and comments but many photos are repetive, therefore the total print-out is 27 PAGES!!! but when I excluded all of the repeat photos and unnecessary data I got it down to ~8-10 pages.

Think of all the paper saved!

yup, that was my thought as well. Here is an implementation suggestion that is real simple:

Change all the tr tags in the document to
tr onclick="this.style.display='none'"

Now you just generate the mini guide, then in the mini guide, each photo, which is in a TR inside a table can be clicked and it will disappear. If you delete a picture by accident, you can just reload and go thru the document again. This also happens to address Justin's request for selective comment printing - each comment is also in a table row element. It also has the side effect of allowing the deletion of the route data (FA, type, etc.) in the route header blocks if you click on it - something that could be avoided if this were coded into the PrinterView.php script.

I've tested this out as a bookmarklet and it works well. Here is the bookmarklet I used in case any others that use them want to grab it:

javascript:
(function(){
function FixTable(t){
t.onclick=function onclick(event){
this.style.display="none";
}
}
var x=document.getElementsByTagName("tr");
for(i=0;i<x.length;i++){
FixTable(x[i])
}
}
)();

For those unfamiliar with them, a bookmarklet is a method to run a javascript on an arbitrary web page and modify it in your browser. In this case it simply makes it so each tr tag has the modification I mentioned above.

EDIT: post edited to remove angle brackets from tags, they messed it up...

Damn Wayne, nice work. On my way to Tuolumne, with a bunch of MP printouts that were a major hassle.

Rather than accidentally take down the site on my way out of town, I'll implement something like this when I return.

Thanks!

Hey, while your messin around with the mini guide stuff think about this.

When i create a list of routes from the search feature - like say i want all the 5.7 routes at Lumpy Ridge - add a selection box or some other way where i can select the routes i want to print direct from the search results, rather than having to print all of them, or go back to the area and go thru the mini-guide process to creat the list again.

Thanks for the feedback and helping to make mp.com better!

I just came over to here to make the EXACT same suggestion as Wayne has made. I end up doing the same thing, printing the mini-guide with no pictures and then going back and printing them one at a time. I also think having the ability to print comments on certain routes but not all routes would be handy. Ideally, selecting which specific comments could be nice but that'd be a lot of work anyway. Thanks guys!

Okay, in the Printer View for routes and areas (sometimes called "mini-guides"), there are now little "hide" links next to every comment, photo, and thumbnail. This lets you hide redundant photos, stuff you don't need to bother printing, etc.

And, the little hide links themselves will not actually be printed on the paper.

Thanks for the suggestion!

Nick Wilder wrote:Okay, in the Printer View for routes and areas (sometimes called "mini-guides"), there are now little "hide" links next to every comment, photo, and thumbnail. This lets you hide redundant photos, stuff you don't need to bother printing, etc. And, the little hide links themselves will not actually be printed on the paper. Thanks for the suggestion!

Tried it, works great. Thanks!!

I like the extra work for the 'hide' text.