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Is there a purpose for this or it's just to collect dust on your comp? Why not use print function?
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GanstaZ wrote: Thu Jul 19, 2018 1:19 pm Is there a purpose for this or it's just to collect dust on your comp? Why not use print function?
Don't kill the trees. Especially, if you intend to read the stuff offline on a mobile device, or if you want to cut and paste the discussion into another document later.

OK, one could use print view, and then save all page as a full html page. But in print view, you only get the current page of your topic, not the whole topic. For longer discussions, this is a bit much work.

I like the idea of downloading a whole topic, because some of my users have their diary on one of my hidden boards, and they sometimes want to download their texts (poems, stories, personal stuff).
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To be honest, it smells like extension request and not as a core implementation. With core you can already print a topic and mail it, adding one more method wont hurt, but can't see it as a core function. Even if devs will consider it as a core future, it wont happen until 3.3+.
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There is a potential problem with allowing anyone to download a topic in file format and that could be, depending on the board, copyright.
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Install foxit pdf reader on your PC then you can print to PDF
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GanstaZ wrote: Thu Jul 19, 2018 1:19 pmWhy not use print function?
Because topics can have more than one page and boards can have settings other than "15 posts per page".

GanstaZ wrote: Thu Jul 19, 2018 2:24 pmyou can already print a topic and mail it
No, you can only send the address to the topic in an e-mail - if I could actually send a topic's content in an e-mail then I could already make it available to non members (who wouldn't be able to read it as guests) and it'd be unbound to time (topic/posts could be deleted/changed at any time).

HiFiKabin wrote: Thu Jul 19, 2018 4:05 pmInstall foxit pdf reader on your PC then you can print to PDF
A good internet browser is already able to print to PDF. But that still would only address the current page of a topic.
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While I see the benefit of the underlying idea, I voted negative.

First of all, I'd say this is way better off as an extension instead of a core functionality. Furthermore, I think a better approach would be to use the print view as a base, make that to have all posts in 1 page instead of paginated and let the browser handle the export. Save as PDF, print to paper, save as HTML, etc.
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That's a good idea but based on permissions, not so hard to implement and will not overkill the core base IMO.

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