arashi has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:
Greetings Fellow Monks,
Problem Background
My office and I have recently completed a new HTML template for use on our websites. We're using a very "modular" approach to our pages, making as much as possible written by a centrally located script. The template is written so that several variables are defined, then the central script (currently in JavaScript) writes the layout of the page, leaving only content for users to define. We don't have a Perl server at this time, we're still playing the "Political Game" with our superiors, and we need to force their hand, so we've written the template so the page width is just a little bit too big to be printed out nicely. Our hope is to write a Perl script that will take in the HTML page, strip what isn't needed, and return that "printer friendly" version to the user. Once our superiors get tired of hearing complaints about pages not printing nicely, they'll demand a solution, which we'll be all to happy to provide, if we get our server. I know it sounds rather underhanded, and personally I don't like it myself, I hate playing the "Political Game" but they've left us with little choice, the requirements for development on a large website, IMHO, demand the use of a CGI server of some sort.
I've searched Perl Monks for information about "printer friendly" scripts, but all I found was questions about making nodes on the site printer friendly.
Thank you for your help,
Arashi
Problem Background
My office and I have recently completed a new HTML template for use on our websites. We're using a very "modular" approach to our pages, making as much as possible written by a centrally located script. The template is written so that several variables are defined, then the central script (currently in JavaScript) writes the layout of the page, leaving only content for users to define. We don't have a Perl server at this time, we're still playing the "Political Game" with our superiors, and we need to force their hand, so we've written the template so the page width is just a little bit too big to be printed out nicely. Our hope is to write a Perl script that will take in the HTML page, strip what isn't needed, and return that "printer friendly" version to the user. Once our superiors get tired of hearing complaints about pages not printing nicely, they'll demand a solution, which we'll be all to happy to provide, if we get our server. I know it sounds rather underhanded, and personally I don't like it myself, I hate playing the "Political Game" but they've left us with little choice, the requirements for development on a large website, IMHO, demand the use of a CGI server of some sort.
I've searched Perl Monks for information about "printer friendly" scripts, but all I found was questions about making nodes on the site printer friendly.
- The Questions
- Are there any modules that can accomplish converting a page to a printer friendly version?
- Does anyone know of any good resources that can point us in the right direction?
- Has anyone written scripts that do similar things, and would be willing to give us suggestions or tips?
Thank you for your help,
Arashi
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