Printing Discussions from the Hub

Although the Hub is designed for viewing and engaging in discussions online, there are occasions when you may need to print a discussion to hard copy. Provision for this is made through the Collect button, which allows you to collect together multiple postings and then print directly from the Collection window. However, a bug has been identified whereby the discussions in some cases run off the side of the page in the printout. This bug should be repaired in upgrades to the Hub in the summer of 2013, however, until then 2 suggestions to avoid this problem are outlined here:

 

Option 1.    Copy and paste to Word

When you used the Collect button to collect all your discussion post together, click the print preview button. This will open a new Collection Window and a Print window too. Close the print window and maximise the collection of posts. Right-click and choose select all and then right-click again and select Copy. 

Open a new Word document and right-click in the document. Under Paste Options you will see 3 icons – choose the middle one Merge Formatting. You will get a message:

“This operation will require copying many different styles – do you want to use Normal style instead”. Choose Yes and this will copy all the posts into Word.

Advantages:

·         Easy to do

·         Standardizes the font size

·         Easy to reformat the font size once copied

·         Posts do not run off the page

Disadvantages

·         May require a bit of editing to get rid of spaces and to make post content more distinct from info about posts, etc

Option 2.    Printing Collection from Hub after changing margins

Again, first use the Collect button to collect the required posts and click print preview button. Close the Print options window and maximise the Collection of posts.

Right-click anywhere on the collection window and choose Print Preview. You then need to make some adjustments to the margins and orientation:

Click the cogwheel icon

Change the orientation to landscape and change all the margins to 10

Click OK and then click the printer icon from the Print Preview screen to print.

Advantages:

·         All formatting is same as viewing on line – no need to rearrange

·         Posts do not run off the page

Disadvantages

·         A bit fiddly

·         Font sizes are still erratic dependant on the font size of the original post

·         No option to reformat