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sm712796
Member

Is there a way to print a form with double columns, exactly how the form is set up in GF?

Posted 13 years ago on Monday February 28, 2011 | Permalink
Carl Hancock
Administrator

Printing is a function of your browser and operating system, not Gravity Forms itself. You can display a form on the page and print it. It will print however it looks on your screen if you print it with the correct settings.

Posted 13 years ago on Monday February 28, 2011 | Permalink
Kevin Flahaut
Administrator
Why would you even need to print a web form? I don't see the point.

You could aways use the CSS @media rules to define specific printing rules for your forms or for anything else at that matter.
```
<style>
@media print
  {
  p.test {font-family:times,serif;font-size:10px;}
  }
</style>
```
http://www.w3schools.com/css/css_mediatypes.asp
Posted 13 years ago on Monday February 28, 2011 | Permalink
maryg
Member

I'm looking for the answer to this... I used it to have people sign up for an event online, but will need a copy of the form onsite for people who show up to fill out and sign and release.

Posted 13 years ago on Friday November 11, 2011 | Permalink
Kevin Flahaut
Administrator

If they've already filled out the form and submitted it, can't you simply print the entry and have them sign that when they get there? That makes more sense to me.

Otherwise, it might just be best to recreate the form in a word processing application, print it and let them fill that out. Your results will be better that way.

Posted 13 years ago on Friday November 11, 2011 | Permalink
now4dw
Member

Kevin -

"Why would you even need to print a web form? I don't see the point."

There are many reasons I can think of. Here's one that is driving me mad:

http://www.perioplant.com.au/practitioner-area/referral-letterprint/

The form is emailed by the referrer to the doctor BUT a hard copy needs to be given to the patient. Using the browser print function in Chrome (for example) results in FOUR pages of printing for what should be a single page! I have also learned to assume nothing - especially that the referrer is going to know that he/she should be using the browser print function. I admit I'm a novice here, but I've got a lot of experience that tells me that if it ain't simple and obvious, it's going to fail.

I've searched here for a solution without success. Any help will be appreciated. And no, Print-Friendly isn't the solution for two reasons:

1/ It simply doesn't work with this form for some reason as only labels - not data - print; and

2/ It is ad supported which makes this practitioner look very unprofessional.

David Wilks

Posted 12 years ago on Thursday July 19, 2012 | Permalink
David Peralty

Here is a great tutorial on setting up a print stylesheet -
http://coding.smashingmagazine.com/2011/11/24/how-to-set-up-a-print-style-sheet/

Posted 12 years ago on Thursday July 19, 2012 | Permalink
now4dw
Member

Thank you David.

Posted 12 years ago on Thursday July 19, 2012 | Permalink