Truncated Print-outs from this Forum

[durisinm]

Whenever I try to print messages from this forum the right-hand side is truncated, and I can't figure out how to get around it. My computer is running Windows XP Professional andprinting to an Epson C82 printer on a network. Reducing the page size doesn't help; the printer just prints a smaller version of the truncated page. I'm using IE6 for my Web browser.

Has anyone reading this experienced this problem and figured out how to get around it?

Mike D.

[Steven_L_Intel1]

This is a standard problem - not just this web site. Unless there is a "print view", MSIE, in particular, tends to chop off the margins. You can go into Page Setup from the File menu and set the left and right margins to something like 1.5 inches.

I have requested a "print view" feature for the forums.

[durisinm]

Increasing myright and left margins to 1.5" makes the problem worse. I was able to work around this by decreasing those margins to 0.25". I could print the pages in landscape mode, too, but that decreases the amount of the printout that you can fit on one page. Landscape also wouldn't help printing those entries that sometimes are really wide.

Yes, getting a print viewoption for the forum is a good idea.

Mike D.

[Steven_L_Intel1]

Ok, maybe it was reducing the margin - I wasn't sure....

[benh]

Yes, I too find this is a common problem. I think often it is caused by web page formatting using TABLE tags. The best handling of this it seems is done by the Mozilla family of browsers (I use M.1.7.3), where one can check an option under File > Page Setup:

"Shrink to fit page width"

That takes care of the problem, and it's the only browser I know of that helps me out with these kind of problems...

BTW, I never see the problem with web pages that are following the (x)html standard, and with all respect this forum's pages do have a lot of issues if you feed it to a validator... ;-) As with Fortran or any other programming language, it's good to have a common standard to follow in the area of web pages too, 'cause then you can at least blame the browser for not keeping up with the standard when problems like this occur, IMHO...