Help with gAutoPrint 1

[DKailen]

Hi all,

I am trying to use gAutoPrint to print a section of a web page. It works almost the way I want except that when I try to print, it centers everything on the page. The text is not centered on the web page itself though.....

Any suggestions? The page is located at

http://paganhideaway.com/terms.html

Thanks!
Jim

 

[BillyRayPreachersSon]

I suspect the reason it's going pear-shaped is that, for some crazy illogical and downright stupid reason, the script copies the contents of the page into a new DOM without the DOCTYPE, rather than just simply printing what's on the page you're already viewing.

My advice: ditch that crazy, archaic, and outdated script and just use a plain old print style sheet instead.

Get rid of the JS needed to print, and just let users press their own 'print' button, or Ctrl-P, or whatever it is they're used to using.

P.S. You can tell that script is really bad simply by viewing the source:

alert("The print ready feature is only available if you are using an browser. Please update your browswer.");

Well duh! How else would you be viewing the web page if not through a ("an", sic) web browser?!

For help with print style sheets, ask in forum215 or search about on Google, etc.

Hope this helps,
Dan



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[DKailen]

Strange that the thought of doing that never crossed my mind.... Anyway, thanks for the assist!

Jim