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 Avoiding right hand truncation of web pages
Author:Andrew Everest
Date:Tuesday, 20th May 2003 10:44
Views:4,407 (excluding Digests and RSS feeds)
Category:Internet Searching, Webmaster, eCommerce
URL:http://www.freepint.com/go/b23770

Grateful for any tips from 'the community' on how to avoid printed web pages being truncated on right margin.e.g appears ok on screen but ends of lines chopped when printing.

Interested to hear any solutions either relevant to Dreamweaver, general HTML coding advice or printer settings.

Regards

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  Avoiding right hand truncation of web pages
Grateful for any tips from 'the community' on how to avoid printed web pages being truncated on right margin.e.g appears ...
Andrew Everest 20/05/03 10:44 23770
   Re: Avoiding right hand truncation of web pages
Hi Lyn The problem with truncation is that material designed to fill a screen perfectly cannot by definition fit an A4 ...
Stuart Cliffe 07/07/03 12:26 24557
    Re: Avoiding right hand truncation of web pages
Many moons ago someone made a brilliant monitor that had a full size A4 screen and when you grabbed hold ...
Robert Warner 08/07/03 16:28 24598
   Re: Avoiding right hand truncation of web pages
The second Cascading Style Sheets standard (CSS2) allows designers to specify different page appearances for screen and print. Might that ...
Matt K 17/06/03 20:36 24205
   Re: Avoiding right hand truncation of web pages
The comment about MSWord above is applicable to end-users who a) have the software and b) the time to fiddle. ...
Stuart Cliffe 17/06/03 19:20 24203
   Re: Avoiding right hand truncation of web pages
Hi Andrew Not to boost your phone bill unnecessarily, but for the sake of completeness - I agree with William ...
Stuart Cliffe 20/05/03 12:24 23776
   Re: Avoiding right hand truncation of web pages
Hi Andrew I guess your page is made up of an invisible table (BORDER=0) and so my take is that you've ...
William Hann 20/05/03 11:02 23771
    Re: Avoiding right hand truncation of web pages
Thanks William I'll give this a try. If everybody else agrees this is the solution then I think we can curtail this ...
Andrew Everest 20/05/03 11:27 23774
     Re: Avoiding right hand truncation of web pages
One other possibility - I have found this happening even with table/cell widths set to 100%, and the culprit seemed ...
Patrick Wallace 21/05/03 13:26 23813
      Re: Avoiding right hand truncation of web pages
Can anyone suggest how we can avoid this truncation when printing from People's Network computers where access to the settings ...
Mark Benjamin 29/05/03 21:47 23914
       Re: Avoiding right hand truncation of web pages
Mark Do the computers have Word on them? If so, then you could CTRL-A (on a PC) to select all the ...
William Hann 30/05/03 11:04 23917
        Re: Avoiding right hand truncation of web pages
William Thanks - although we are not currently offering the MSOffice facilities, the PCs do have Word installed awaiting future developments, ...
Mark Benjamin 30/05/03 20:12 23929
         Re: Avoiding right hand truncation of web pages
When I have had this problem I have gone into File\Page Setup, changed to Landscape and found it printed all ...
Marilyn Saklatvala 12/06/03 18:33 24126
      Re: Avoiding right hand truncation of web pages
Printing width is a classic problem for webmasters. This site gives guidance on using CSS to solve it. http://projectseven.com/faqbase/faqs/faq17.asp?cat=10&ts=print&pg=1&id=17 Regards Neil
Neil Infield 23/05/03 16:11 23858
       Re: Avoiding right hand truncation of web pages
This thread has been answered as if it was problems for webmasters, but the real issue, as I see it, ...
Andrew Denny 17/06/03 16:36 24199
        Re: Avoiding right hand truncation of web pages
Exactly! I have this truncation problem continually. Yes, I can change to landscape, yes I can copy/paste and ...
Lyn Dunham 06/07/03 15:59 24539
        Re: Avoiding right hand truncation of web pages
The way I get round this problem is to select "print" from the file menu then click on "layout" and ...
Stephen Cook 20/06/03 15:07 24269

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