Felix Miata wrote:
On 2010/10/06 14:47 (GMT+0100) Dave Howorth composed:
Does anybody else have problems printing some sites, especially blogs?
The problem is not unique to Firefox.
Oh well, at least it's not me going mad then. Thanks for your response.
The power of CSS is extensive. Incompetence in using it abounds. Most blog authors give no thought that anyone might care to print. Sites more than nominally styled with CSS need either a print this page link and/or a separate print stylesheet, but usually this is overlooked or (often to preserve site branding) ignored.
I haven't done much investigation, but I'd assumed that most blog authors use or slightly adapt some theme provided by somebody else - most usually the blog software or hosting site. So I'm surprised it hasn't gotten fixed over time. Wikipedia shows how to do it well. I'm very surprised that google shows how not to do it.
I find what works passably is a separate browser or profile with settings conformed to what web authors assume users use, loading pages to print there, taking screenshots of the pages to be printed, then trimming the browser chrome and printing the screenshots via image editor instead of printing the browser pages directly. This works best if either your screen resolution is considerably higher than 1024x768, or you have virtual desktop/panning enabled, so that the browser viewport can be big enough to hold the equivalent of a whole sheet of paper before taking each screenshot.
Aargh! Yes, that's what I do to print google maps. For text-based pages that I care enough about I save them locally then find the offending bits of CSS and chop them out. Sometimes just removing the whole CSS file is good enough. But both techniques are a royal pain and I'd love to discover something better. Do ANY browsers work, for example? (not that it's the browsers' problem in the first case but ...) Cheers, Dave -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org