Netscape Print Issue 1

[tlhawkins]

Hi everyone,

I have a page that prints a long list of results. Each result contains a graph. I need to have only one result per page, even if thise means a fairly empty page. This works fine with

style="page-break-after: always"

On IE. But I really need it to work on Netscape as well and it doesn't

Anybody got an idea?

 

[tsdragon]

Try insert a page-break character into the page where you want the page to break. It's Alt-012. That worked for me. Tracy Dryden
tracy@bydisn.com

http://www.bydisn.com

Meddle not in the affairs of dragons,
For you are crunchy, and good with mustard.

 

[tlhawkins]

Hey, Thanks.

I tried really hard not to be a moron, I searched for an hour and I still can't figure out how to insert an ALT-012 into my HTML code.

little more help please.

 

[tsdragon]

I guess it's not used that much any more, it's originally a DOS thing. Hold down the Alt key while you press 0 1 2 on your numeric keypad. Some editors might not let you do it, but I think notepad will. Tracy Dryden
tracy@bydisn.com

http://www.bydisn.com

Meddle not in the affairs of dragons,
For you are crunchy, and good with mustard.

 

[tlhawkins]

Hey ,

I remmember that in DOS, I didn't think It worked in Windows, I messed around and could only get from 032 and up to work. It doesn't do anything for ALT 012.

So I finally used ColdFusion to write the Character (Duh) and it didn't have any effect on the printer, is it possible that I need to have it in a system font or something like that?

I can't beleive I can't do something this simple. Netscape seems very limited when it comes to printing, it doesn't even give you the option to change which pages are printed , or in what order when the "Print Dialog" box pops up. I'm wondering if my Netscape is missing something. I've got NS6 it should be able to print a Form-Feed.

Thanks again.

 

[tsdragon]

There are some windows programs alt-012 works in, and some that it doesn't. You just have to see which works. If necessary you can create the character in one editor and cut-n-paste it into another. That might work.

I'm not sure why your printer is ignoring the page feed. My Lexmark laser printer and my HP Deskjet both will recognize it. But then again, I rarely use NS, so I can't say what it's doing with it. You might try putting in in a system font and see if that helps, but most fonts don't map any characters below 032 anyway because they're all control characters.

I wish I could be of more help here, but I'm stumped. Maybe we could ask some others to try it and see if it works for them.
Tracy Dryden
tracy@bydisn.com

http://www.bydisn.com

Meddle not in the affairs of dragons,
For you are crunchy, and good with mustard.

 

[tlhawkins]

Well,

Thanks for all the help. I haven't got it to work but I'm done messing with it. If anyone comes accross another solution or an idea why this one doesn't work for me Please Post it otherwise thanks again TSDRAGON