[thelist] Printing Standard Pages from Web Site
jay.blanchard at thermon.com
jay.blanchard at thermon.com
Tue Oct 23 11:31:51 CDT 2001
Hail All Wise & Wonderful Web Gurus!
We have an ongoing 'tiff' here at the ranch that I am hoping that maybe the
collective brain trust can help me solve. It would be a valuable tool for many.
As has been discussed before here, CSS can be used to create various
versions of a page, for instance one for display and one for print. Each
version can be customized various ways, but there are some around here that
want the page to print as if it were coming out of M$ Word or Adobe ...nice
8.5" x 11" pages that don't have a line wiped out at the bottom, don't have
columns, etc.. I have explained until I am blue in the face how printing
from a web page is not the same as printing from a document. I don't want
to have to create dual versions of the materials to facilitate this. Has
anyone created a CSS for printing that will take a single web page and
compress it so that it neatly fits on 8.5 x 11 printed pages? I have made
many attempts, but to no avail. The problem, as we all know, is that a web
page may exceed the logical limits of a printed page (number of lines) even
if you get rid of nav stuff, graphics, etc.. I am beginning to think that I
will have to create a text document having no columns that I cut and paste
from the newsletter section (where the most complaints come from) of our
site and print it out for those who don't get it.
The real $h!t of this deal is that we are launching a new Intranet site
within the next few months and I am sure that this will come up yet again
even though the format will be different. I guess I could limit the number
of lines per page programatically.
Signed,
Hair Pulling in Texas
<tip>How many of you make flow charts anymore? While most web work is not
programming in the traditional sense a flow chart can still help your
customer to better understand navigational issues and other decision making
processes that a site visitor might go through. The tool of choice for most
is Visio (which now belongs to the Empire) although any block diagram tool
will work.</tip>
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