Hi-<br />
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I never thought the day would come when I praised Netscape, but they've come along way since NN4.5! I just printed a web page of mine with table widths of 800 pixels and it was center in the middle of the page. Not only did it print it fine, it broke it up into two pages without have text cut in half. Now, for those of you who don't know, 715 pixels is the average print maximum. I figured that out after printing out about 15 or 20 pages. So though I had 800 pixel width of text, it reformatted the page automatically without losing readability! <br />
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I then printed the page again but this time using IE5.5 and not only did it cut the text in half on right of the page, when it took 3 pages to print it!<br />
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Well, this is one less thing I have to worry about NS with; however, I now have to come up with a way to script a page with IE to tell the printer to resize or auotmatically format the content to be printable, neither of which I know how to accomplish. The other way of course is to change the <td> widths, which being possible, is simply maticulous and time consuming.<br />
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All comments, rags, suggestions and questions gladly will be read.<br />
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Thanks, Gandalf<br />
<!--content-->Someone should mention to Gandalf that he should proof read his post for grammatical errors.<br />
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<!--content-->a-ha! i KNEW this would come in handy some day!<br />
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<link rel="alternate" media="print" href=http://www.htmlforums.com/archive/index.php/"alternate.html"><!--content-->Can you break this down and explain to me what's happening here?<br />
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<link rel="alternate" media="print" href=http://www.htmlforums.com/archive/index.php/"alternate.html"> <br />
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Ty, Gandalf<br />
<!--content-->basically, it just tells the browser that, should you happen to print from that particular page, it should print out the ALTERNATE url instead, rather than the current one. very very handy, when you actually need to use it. put it in your head as if it were a CSS link or meta or something.<!--content-->but that still means that i have to script another page eh?<br />
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g<!--content-->well, yeah... but it's really the best way to do what you want, if it's only one page.<!--content--><groan> Printed pages </groan><br />
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Gees, I hate those things with a passion, but there are times when it's necessary. And that's when I cheat. (Or work smart, depending on your viewpoint. *g*)<br />
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I have PageMaker, a desktop publishing programme by Adobe. If I have a page that I know I'll want to allow to be printed out, I'll create the page in PageMaker and save it as an HTML file. PageMaker sticks in all manner of tables and stuff, but it works out that the page is exactly the right size for printing. I usually leave a 1" margin all the way around, just to make sure. <br />
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Failing that, I'll save it as a PDF and stick the link to that version at the top of the web page. <br />
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It all depends on how ambitious I'm feeling. *g*<br />
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Peg<!--content-->There's a MUCH better way than doing up an "alternate.html" page for printing - use CSS!!<br />
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See:<br />
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* <!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="http://www.alistapart.com/stories/goingtoprint/">http://www.alistapart.com/stories/goingtoprint/</a><!-- m --> AND<br />
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* <!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="http://www.westciv.com/style_master/academy/css_tutorial/advanced/printing.html">http://www.westciv.com/style_master/aca ... nting.html</a><!-- m --> AND/OR<br />
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* <!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=navclient&q=printing+with+css">http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=n ... g+with+css</a><!-- m --><br />
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Neil<!--content-->i agree! i thought there was a way to do that, i just couldn't remember what the tag looked like.<!--content-->
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I never thought the day would come when I praised Netscape, but they've come along way since NN4.5! I just printed a web page of mine with table widths of 800 pixels and it was center in the middle of the page. Not only did it print it fine, it broke it up into two pages without have text cut in half. Now, for those of you who don't know, 715 pixels is the average print maximum. I figured that out after printing out about 15 or 20 pages. So though I had 800 pixel width of text, it reformatted the page automatically without losing readability! <br />
<br />
I then printed the page again but this time using IE5.5 and not only did it cut the text in half on right of the page, when it took 3 pages to print it!<br />
<br />
Well, this is one less thing I have to worry about NS with; however, I now have to come up with a way to script a page with IE to tell the printer to resize or auotmatically format the content to be printable, neither of which I know how to accomplish. The other way of course is to change the <td> widths, which being possible, is simply maticulous and time consuming.<br />
<br />
All comments, rags, suggestions and questions gladly will be read.<br />
<br />
Thanks, Gandalf<br />
<!--content-->Someone should mention to Gandalf that he should proof read his post for grammatical errors.<br /><br />
<!--content-->a-ha! i KNEW this would come in handy some day!<br /><br />
<link rel="alternate" media="print" href=http://www.htmlforums.com/archive/index.php/"alternate.html"><!--content-->Can you break this down and explain to me what's happening here?<br />
<br />
<link rel="alternate" media="print" href=http://www.htmlforums.com/archive/index.php/"alternate.html"> <br />
<br />
Ty, Gandalf<br />
<!--content-->basically, it just tells the browser that, should you happen to print from that particular page, it should print out the ALTERNATE url instead, rather than the current one. very very handy, when you actually need to use it. put it in your head as if it were a CSS link or meta or something.<!--content-->but that still means that i have to script another page eh?<br /><br />
g<!--content-->well, yeah... but it's really the best way to do what you want, if it's only one page.<!--content--><groan> Printed pages </groan><br />
<br />
Gees, I hate those things with a passion, but there are times when it's necessary. And that's when I cheat. (Or work smart, depending on your viewpoint. *g*)<br />
<br />
I have PageMaker, a desktop publishing programme by Adobe. If I have a page that I know I'll want to allow to be printed out, I'll create the page in PageMaker and save it as an HTML file. PageMaker sticks in all manner of tables and stuff, but it works out that the page is exactly the right size for printing. I usually leave a 1" margin all the way around, just to make sure. <br />
<br />
Failing that, I'll save it as a PDF and stick the link to that version at the top of the web page. <br />
<br />
It all depends on how ambitious I'm feeling. *g*<br />
<br />
Peg<!--content-->There's a MUCH better way than doing up an "alternate.html" page for printing - use CSS!!<br />
<br />
See:<br />
<br />
* <!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="http://www.alistapart.com/stories/goingtoprint/">http://www.alistapart.com/stories/goingtoprint/</a><!-- m --> AND<br />
<br />
* <!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="http://www.westciv.com/style_master/academy/css_tutorial/advanced/printing.html">http://www.westciv.com/style_master/aca ... nting.html</a><!-- m --> AND/OR<br />
<br />
* <!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=navclient&q=printing+with+css">http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=n ... g+with+css</a><!-- m --><br />
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Neil<!--content-->i agree! i thought there was a way to do that, i just couldn't remember what the tag looked like.<!--content-->