Hi Dave,
Right now, the only option I see for printing the details about a plant in the database is to use my browser's "print" button, which prints the entire page. I want to just print out plant names, characteristics, and the primary photo of the plant (an option to choose to print "all photos" would be a nice addition).
Is anything like that in your to-do list, or is there already a print button that I'm just not seeing?
Here's my background for this request.
1 - I'm visual/kinetic. I need paper in my hands when I'm thinking/planning stuff. And I have a plethora of daylilies to rearrange because last fall I just shoved them in the ground. Now I need to plan my beds. I also want a binder of my plants with their traits so I can check things out without being online. Not all of my DLs are in my plant list yet, and even if they were, printing my plant list only gives me name/photo/status/comments, not the detailed info about the plant.
2 - Since I believe in dreaming big, the ideal "Print this page" option would let me select which of the categories I wanted to print. For instance, I would de-select the section that tells me how many members have this plant, and for my DLs I would de-select common name (daylily) and botanical name (hemerocallis) cause I don't need to print that. I would probably de-select the general plant info, because it's the same for every DL. But I would select the portion that includes the AHS link and the traits. That would give me everything I cared about in my binder, in a standard format that's easy for me to read and big enough print that I don't strain my eyes. I *might* select to print all photos, or I might prefer to only print the representative photo -- that depends on how many photos there are for a particular DL. (I *do* understand copyright concerns about the photos, and have no idea who to work around those)
If I were printing some other plant from the database (my witch hazel tree, for instance), I might prefer to include the botanical name, etc. That's why my ideal "print this page" would let me select individual sections to print.
As it is right now, all I can do is bring up the database page, hit my print button, and compost the unwanted pages. Given the price of paper and ink, I'm *really* wishing there were another way, since I wind up with a minimum of two pages, and usually more if there are lots of photos.. I can go other places and find the info in one place, like the AHS database, but it's not as nicely formatted, is harder to read, and besides, I want ATP to be my one-stop-shopping spot for 'all things plants.'
Thanks for thinking about it!
