Print Button-format for print/export to PDF from browser

[alocalsewerhistorian]

Describe the problem your feature will solve.
Feature Request: Printing from browser in nicely formatted way... WYSIWYP

Describe the solution you'd like
Printable format/function
Printing will never be perfect but, it would be nice to have some examples of CSS or print option to format for print
I dont print myself but my users are starting to ask for it.

Describe alternatives you've considered
I've started to mess with css media but this is a nest of worms... I'm hoping someone here might have also worked out some preliminary approach, I'm happy to help expand it for W2ui
(as long as my users keep complaining)

Additional context
I've searched W2ui issues for 'print' and 'printable', it doesnt seem like something that's been brought up yet.

[edit] ok I found issue 1659: #1659
Mike points out this is likely out of scope for the project...I can understand... but if someone has some helpful tips, that would be appreciated!
example of export/print features from Kendo
https://docs.telerik.com/kendo-ui/controls/data-management/grid/export/print-export
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[mpf82]

Personally, I think WYSIWYP is even harder to implement than a (plain text) export functionality.

For example, as shown in your screenshot the grid has several column that are not visible (you'd have to scroll to the right to see them), however w2ui implements "virtual scrolling" (both horizontal and vertical), that means only the cells that are visible are actually created in the browser's DOM. When you scroll, the cells in the DOM get created/destroyed on the fly.

And even if all cells were created - how should "wide" grids be printed? If they are scaled down to fit in call columns the text would probably be way too small to read.

And then there's also "endless scrolling", that only pulls records from the server as the user scrolls down in the grid. For printing, you might want to print all records that match your current filter.

Anyway, I'll leave this open as a Feature Request, however I'm pretty sure @vitmalina will most likely decline it.

As stated in the issue you've linked, we're using the backend for various export formats, such as real Excel (so you can honor the column width), real PDF, SQL statements, and some more plaint text formats (CSV, TSV, ...) were the user can also decide the encoding and other aspects of the created file.

Speaking of plain text exports, maybe CSV (as shown in this declined PR https://github.com/vitmalina/w2ui/pull/777/files) and TSV - which is already part of the copy (to clipboard) method, might actually get implemented as "official" export formats one day - if Vitaly changes his mind that is.

[alocalsewerhistorian]

This turns out to be my fault…. In the css link I had media=’screen’, I changed to media="screen,print" and get 90% of what I need so… user error. Also, checking the box "background graphics" cleaned it up enough for my folks Thanks Team!