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Avoiding right hand truncation of web pages

Author:

Andrew Everest

Date:

Tuesday, 20th May 2003 10:44

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Grateful for any tips from 'the community' on how to avoid printed web pages being truncated on right margin.e.g appears ok on screen but ends of lines chopped when printing.

Interested to hear any solutions either relevant to Dreamweaver, general HTML coding advice or printer settings.

Regards

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•	Avoiding right hand truncation of web pages
	Grateful for any tips from 'the community' on how to avoid printed web pages being truncated on right margin.e.g appears ...

Andrew Everest

20/05/03 10:44

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•	Re: Avoiding right hand truncation of web pages
	Hi Lyn The problem with truncation is that material designed to fill a screen perfectly cannot by definition fit an A4 ...

Stuart Cliffe

07/07/03 12:26

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•	Re: Avoiding right hand truncation of web pages
	Many moons ago someone made a brilliant monitor that had a full size A4 screen and when you grabbed hold ...

Robert Warner

08/07/03 16:28

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•	Re: Avoiding right hand truncation of web pages
	The second Cascading Style Sheets standard (CSS2) allows designers to specify different page appearances for screen and print. Might that ...

Matt K

17/06/03 20:36

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•	Re: Avoiding right hand truncation of web pages
	The comment about MSWord above is applicable to end-users who a) have the software and b) the time to fiddle. ...

Stuart Cliffe

17/06/03 19:20

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•	Re: Avoiding right hand truncation of web pages
	Hi Andrew Not to boost your phone bill unnecessarily, but for the sake of completeness - I agree with William ...

Stuart Cliffe

20/05/03 12:24

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•	Re: Avoiding right hand truncation of web pages
	Hi Andrew I guess your page is made up of an invisible table (BORDER=0) and so my take is that you've ...

William Hann

20/05/03 11:02

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•	Re: Avoiding right hand truncation of web pages
	Thanks William I'll give this a try. If everybody else agrees this is the solution then I think we can curtail this ...

Andrew Everest

20/05/03 11:27

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•	Re: Avoiding right hand truncation of web pages
	One other possibility - I have found this happening even with table/cell widths set to 100%, and the culprit seemed ...

Patrick Wallace

21/05/03 13:26

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•	Re: Avoiding right hand truncation of web pages
	Can anyone suggest how we can avoid this truncation when printing from People's Network computers where access to the settings ...

Mark Benjamin

29/05/03 21:47

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•	Re: Avoiding right hand truncation of web pages
	Mark Do the computers have Word on them? If so, then you could CTRL-A (on a PC) to select all the ...

William Hann

30/05/03 11:04

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•	Re: Avoiding right hand truncation of web pages
	William Thanks - although we are not currently offering the MSOffice facilities, the PCs do have Word installed awaiting future developments, ...

Mark Benjamin

30/05/03 20:12

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•	Re: Avoiding right hand truncation of web pages
	When I have had this problem I have gone into File\Page Setup, changed to Landscape and found it printed all ...

Marilyn Saklatvala

12/06/03 18:33

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•	Re: Avoiding right hand truncation of web pages
	Printing width is a classic problem for webmasters. This site gives guidance on using CSS to solve it. http://projectseven.com/faqbase/faqs/faq17.asp?cat=10&ts=print&pg=1&id=17 Regards Neil

Neil Infield

23/05/03 16:11

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•	Re: Avoiding right hand truncation of web pages
	This thread has been answered as if it was problems for webmasters, but the real issue, as I see it, ...

Andrew Denny

17/06/03 16:36

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•	Re: Avoiding right hand truncation of web pages
	Exactly! I have this truncation problem continually. Yes, I can change to landscape, yes I can copy/paste and ...

Lyn Dunham

06/07/03 15:59

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•	Re: Avoiding right hand truncation of web pages
	The way I get round this problem is to select "print" from the file menu then click on "layout" and ...

Stephen Cook

20/06/03 15:07

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