Adjusting text for printing

[blondie27]

A few of the pages in my web site don't print out properly - the text runs off the right side of the page. How can I adjust this?

 

[blondie27]

Sorry - I neglected to read down and see kgoeman's post. However, I'm not sure I understand the answers. I didn't have to do anything special to my other pages. I'm wondering why only some of them do this. (Although the ones that are doing it were copy/pasted from another file.)

 

[Garridon]

The margins of the page are too wide for the printer, and it's not able to adjust for it. The best way to fix this is to create a single celled invisible table (lines set to 0) and put your text inside the table. Then make sure the table width is set to 100% (right click on the table to bring up the shortcut menu and select Table Properties). By setting it to a percentage, it will automatically readjust to print properly. Linda Adams
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[Garridon]

Oops! Forgot to add one more thing. If it already is in a table, check the table properties to make sure it is set to 100%. If it's set to a specific pixel size, that would cause the same problem.

Linda Adams
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[txbbl]

Garridon, you don't explain how to create an invisible table!. Everything tells me a table needs to be at least 1row and 1 column?

 

[AMysticWeb]

Hi txbbl,

You are on the right track. This would be a single row, single column table with the width set to 100%.
This can also be a way to set up your pages so they display similarly in different resolutions.

Hope I have been of some help,
Micheal Smith

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[txbbl]

Well, I used a 1x1 cell and set height and width to 100%, previewed in browser, and it is still printing huge. Is there something else I should be doing with the cell. I figured out that if you use the edit tool in IE you can get the document to print any way you want, but not all my users will have excel or word access. Thanks.

 

[AMysticWeb]

How about a URL for the problem page. Maybe someone can pick up something you are missing.

One way you might try is to use the following script source for the area you wish to be printed. Just make sure the portion you wish to print is inbetween the <Div> tags.

http://personalweb.about.com/od/copypastejavascripts/a/404_3scripts_3.htm

Hope I have been of some help,
Micheal Smith

FrontPage Form Tutorials & Form Script Examples

http://FrontPageForms.com

 

[txbbl]

Thanks Mystic. I haven't published yet, but when I do I'll let you know.