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Charles Plager
Charles Plager

Reputation: 604

Printing iPython Notebook preview in color?

I'm using Windows Python 2.7.6 and iPython 2.0.0. When I do a print preview on a notebook, I get a gorgeous color output with syntax highlighting, etc.

As soon as I either do a print preview, or print it, it becomes gray scale and loses the syntax highlighting. How can I print keeping the color and highlighting?

Upvotes: 7

Views: 5253

Answers (2)

Caustic
Caustic

Reputation: 979

One workaround is, save the notebook as html. The rendered file will have the css embedded. Open the HTML in a text editor and do a search for

@media print

and delete the offending

!important;color:#000

save, open the file in a browser and print.

It's not ideal but you don't have to go digging around changing the CSS and recompiling in your site-packages.

Just in case someone is looking for an easier workaround.

Upvotes: 10

regdoug
regdoug

Reputation: 1213

I know this is an old question, but for people who may be searching for this answer, here it is:

IPython on windows would be installed by default at C:\Python27\site-packages\IPython. If you installed Python somewhere else, the beginning of the path will change. For linux users, it would be installed under /usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/IPython.

Once in the IPython folder, go to html\static\style. You should then see a file called style.min.css.

Making sure you have administrator priviledges, open style.min.css with your favorite text editor. If you don't know what I mean by text editor, just double click. In style.min.css find the line that starts with @media print. On that line, near the beginning, you will see color: #000 !important; Delete only that part of the line and save the file.

I have IPython 2.3.0, so it may be different in you version, but this is what the line I am talking about looks like before and after the change (only part of line is shown):

@media print{*{text-shadow:none !important;color:#000 !important;background:tran...

@media print{*{text-shadow:none !important;background:transparent !important;box...

Upvotes: 9

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