Printable catalog is a great add-on, but I also needed to show the product description.

Because space is limited and to avoid a messy catalog, this fix retrieves just the first 400 characters of your description, and it get's rid of all the html code, but the
and <b> tags just to accomodate proper formatting.

If you want to modify the character length just go to line 852.

To install, just add this file to your catalog directory, providing that you are already using this contribution.

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