how can i convert web site to printer friendly?

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I'v created a web site comprising about a dozen pages, each with from 3
to a dozen products ( health/ beauty related), a late request to
compile all these pages into a a single file which a site visitor can
print off and have there own "brochure" of the products ~ however I
didnt create the pages with that in mind ~ soooo..... pdf I'm having
trouble with - downloaded a couple of good looking pdf creators,
pdfcamp was one of them ~ but it doesnt really let me get the formating
correct.. overlapping pages etc!! anyone know of anything out there
that might take in web pages and output them as something like a
desktop publisher file, that would make them look as close as possible
to the original web site appearance ~or at least let me control and
manipulate to get something as close as possible??
many thanks.
 
There are at least three things that you must do to achieve this -

1. Rigidly control your page's horizontal space usage. Have no 'lines'
wider than ~624px (or, if using percents, 100% - although a 100% table with
an image > 624px wide will blow things out).
2. Remember that background images are *not* printed by (browser) default,
and consider this when building your pages.
3. Study how to use print media stylesheets to modify the printed page's
appearance (hiding some elements, and showing some other elements) as
desired. This may come in handy when grappling with #1 above to hide
over-width content.

Read this -

http://www.alistapart.com/articles/goingtoprint/
 
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