Is there a way to print a single post in a topic, rather than the entire topic?

Not really, you can do something like https://meta.discourse.org/raw/79562/78 to get the raw markdown, but it’s raw markdown and not pretty.

I raised the question of better print support in today’s AMA session, here’s an old topic where I raised similar issues on META that I offered to revive. (I think there may have been a second one, too.) Something that would allow selecting which posts to include when printing a thread would be ver…

There is separate css for print. Selective printing of posts is not something I’m sure how to do.

I did try to experiment with this. It kind of works, but it has some drawbacks I would need to address. You would have different ways to print a post as PDF: Using a third-party library that converts HTML to PDF (usually reads the HTML node, tries to clone the CSS, and generates a PDF from scrat…

[image] Jay Pfaffman: Selective printing of posts is not something I’m sure how to do. Well, there’s a way for moderators to select posts when moving them, so the code for selecting posts already exists, what would (probably) be needed is a way to turn those selected posts into something prin…

That’s true! It should be possible to make that code callable for the print all function. If you have a budget and are self hosted (or on enterprise) it should be possible. EDIT: Wait. Wait. Wait. As I remember, Control-P gives a view of an entire topic, but I tried it just now and it has just I …

[image] Jay Pfaffman: This seems like a bug, but I obviously haven’t paid close attention to this in some years. And what’s odd is if you’re NOT logged in, it seems to give you the whole topic. That’s still not what I’d like but it might be an improvement over just doing a print from within …

This is a bug we noticed today already and a fix is in the works. I shared the idea of selecting posts to print or export internally. No idea of if or when we will work on this but that something should be done is on our radar.

There is an alpha TC for it: [image] Printing a topic as a PDF Using Discourse We still need to get these documented, but have a look at the following theme components in the mean time: GitHub - discourse/clean-export (Adds a button to the post admin controls to print …

In our communities we still see the need for sharing of internal information from discourse into other platforms, eg. a signal or threema chat group. For this use case, a particular post (e.g. the protocol of a meeting which was created collaboratively as wiki text) should be selectable for printin…

Is there a way to print a single post in a topic?

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nathank (Nathan Kershaw) March 29, 2026, 9:30pm 18

Are you sure? Lower trust levels get the admin wrench when they are able to make Wiki posts.

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Is there a way to print a single post in a topic?

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