[TriLUG] Printing from the Web

Warren Myers volcimaster at gmail.com
Wed Jul 13 10:57:45 EDT 2005


Opera also has an option for forcing the page to use your CSS, which means 
you could strip all of the formatting out.

WMM

On 7/13/05, Josh Vickery <vickeryj at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Printing web pages reminds me of the days when websites only worked in
> one browser. I've only found one solution that seems to work for most
> pages, and that is to modify the CSS, usually just removing it. On
> pages that I control, this is not a problem (at
> http://vickeryj.freeshell.org/resume.html see the inline css that
> starts with @media print {) for others pages I rely on the
> mozilla-firefox web developer extension to edit the CSS on the fly
> (usually just add media="screen"). This is not the best solution, but
> until all web developers start thinking about print media as well as
> screen, its the best I've found.
> 
> Josh
> 
> On 7/13/05, Brian Henning <brian at strutmasters.com> wrote:
> > Hi Guys,
> > I can't seem to win for losing on this one. Does anyone out there
> > have a no-problems printing solution when it comes to printing from the
> > web? I have three web browsers to choose from, and all of them have
> > their own unique problems.. Here's the skinny, and perhaps someone can
> > say, "Hey, I know how to make browser ___ stop doing ____"..
> >
> > NB: In the following descriptions, I use the word "image" to mean the
> > logical print layout, and not to mean a graphic image file.
> >
> > Opera - Used for 99% of browsing.
> > Opera's printing problem: Scaling.
> > At 100%, the image is too large for the page. Lower scaling factors
> > appear to be applied twice; 80% appears to first shrink the page layout
> > to where it fits the page, then shrinks the entire page image to where
> > the printed page image takes only 80% of the paper.
> >
> > Galeon - System default browser
> > Galeon's printing problem: Landscape
> > Galeon lays out the printed page correctly without the scaling problem
> > that Opera exhibits. However, Galeon's landscape option results in the
> > page image turning landscape, but still being laid on the paper in
> > portrait orientation (as if you printed a landscape page and viewed it
> > through a portrait orientation window).
> >
> > Mozilla - Almost never used.
> > Moz's printing problem: No Landscape option whatsoever.
> >
> > None of these weirdnesses appear to be printer-related; each manifests
> > exactly the same way regardless of what printer I use, or if I print to
> > a file. CUPS is my backend.
> >
> > Anyone have any suggestions to fix any of the aforementioned problems?
> > Or suggestions of other browsers to try?
> >
> > Thanks a bunch; see some of you tomorrow.
> >
> > ~Brian
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