The printer friendly view of book.module is useful for the regular site visitors. However, it is also picked up a lot by search engine spider, because it has a lot of informationi in a single page. When visitors come from search engine directly to these pages, there is no indicator telling them it is not for normal viewing. (except in the URL)

A line of text describing this, and a link back to the normal view at the top of the page will help.

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puregin’s picture

puregin commented

The proposed message and link would then print as part of the book. This doesn't seem like a really good idea. The printer friendly version should contain 'the truth, and nothing but the truth' :)

Djun

chrisada’s picture

chrisada commented

The printer friendly version should be formatted so as to make it most useful in print form. Where did you get the 'nothing but the truth' idea from? I don't see why the text & link would harm the page's purpose.

januario’s picture

januario commented

From the previous two comments, it seems this feature is useful depending on preference. You can add this by modifying the printer friendly page template:

.../modules/print/print.tpl.php

Just add whatever indicator you'd like...'you've reached a printer friendly page, to view the original page...'

januario