Print Books on-line

Is it possible to print booksonline? If so do i need a separate download or is there a trick to print them like a book?

Thanks

Um...............to do what?

The last time I saw a printed version of BOL was back in SQL Server 6.5 and that thing was a shelf containing a couple thousand pages. Someone on the doc team would know how many pages there actually are now. But, I would expect BOL for just the replication engine to weigh in at somewhere north of 700 pages. The whole thing? You would need a semi full of paper, a couple hundred toner cartridges, and about a dozen very high speed printers running non-stop for weeks to print all of this stuff out. There has to be somewhere in excess of 50,000 pages based on the fact that BOL is 100MB of highly compressed documents most of which is text.

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Bloody ell!!!!! i thought it was about 600 pages so i can have it printed for offline reading when im not at the office - guess thats out the window.

Thanks anyway

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Yeah, I hear you. But what about just printing, say, the T-Sql reference manual. I like to have hard copy sometimes (back patio, couch, etc), sometimes the printed page is just more convenient. Anyway, does anyone know a way to print one manual from the BOL? That is, without having to go to each link and print separately, something like the online Oracle docs do it - view this on-line, or print pdf here.

Kevin

|||No, there isn't. Books Online went...Online years ago for the simple reason that publishing it in any other form than electronic was prohibitive. The last time I saw a printed version was with 6.5 and that came in multiple volumes at somewhere around 3000 total pages. 3000 pages wouldn't even cover most of the manuals in the collection. You might be able to get the full text manual is a small enough set of pages to print out, but there still isn't a way to print anything other than printing something one page at a time. BOL is too big and is not written for printing. The entire authoriing process is built on an individual topic basis, designed to be hyperlinked to other topics, and built for online viewing and searching only. It's not meant to be read from point A to point B like a book, but instead to be read in a non-linear manner after looking up a specifc topic.