Re: Printing floating-image thumbnail CSS pages

I should note that the problem with printing in IE isn't that I get a
blank page before and after the pictures. It's that there is only one
page in between them, no matter how many images I have. So I only get a
small percentage of my images showing up on the printout. This is true
for ANY page I make in this manner - when I print, there's only one
page showing the "meat" of the page. Anything that doesn't fit in that
one page doesn't show up anywhere.

As much as I'd like to blame it on IE, other browsers all show some
types of problems with my pages, so I think it's my fault - something
I'm doing wrong with CSS methods.

sp_mclaugh (AT) yahoo (DOT) com wrote:

I should note that the problem with printing in IE isn't that I get a
blank page before and after the pictures. It's that there is only one
page in between them, no matter how many images I have. So I only get a
small percentage of my images showing up on the printout. This is true
for ANY page I make in this manner - when I print, there's only one
page showing the "meat" of the page. Anything that doesn't fit in that
one page doesn't show up anywhere.

It sounds like you have your printer settings in IE set to print only
'1' page instead of 'All'.

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Nope, nothing like that. I get weird behavior in other browsers too.

Els wrote:

It sounds like you have your printer settings in IE set to print only
'1' page instead of 'All'.

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sp_mclaugh (AT) yahoo (DOT) com wrote:

Els wrote:

It sounds like you have your printer settings in IE set to print only
'1' page instead of 'All'.

Nope, nothing like that. I get weird behavior in other browsers too.

Do you get the same result in the print preview, or only when
printing? I'm not gonna try and print your pages, (too much ink and my
colours ran out already), but in the print preview it looks okay here.
Have you tried what happens if you would do exactly the same HTML and
CSS, but have the images resized in an image editor first, so they
aren't resized by the code?
If the print preview looks good and the prints are bad: have you reset
your printer? Are there any settings on the printer itself wrt
margins, paper size, etc.?

(that's about all the ideas I can come up with...)

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accessible web design: http://locusoptimus.com/

Yes I get the same result in print preview. What browser are you using?
I've tried quite a few and always got bad results. I'll try the
resizing idea.

It's almost like how in Word, if you place floating images, you can't
place them on their own page unless something else (text, blank space)
exists to "reserve/allocate" that page. Not true with inline images,
just floating ones. I was thinking that maybe the use of floating DIV's
might be causing a similar effect, but I don't know enough about it to
be sure.

thanks

sean

Els wrote:

Do you get the same result in the print preview, or only when
printing? I'm not gonna try and print your pages, (too much ink and my
colours ran out already), but in the print preview it looks okay here.
Have you tried what happens if you would do exactly the same HTML and
CSS, but have the images resized in an image editor first, so they
aren't resized by the code?
If the print preview looks good and the prints are bad: have you reset
your printer? Are there any settings on the printer itself wrt
margins, paper size, etc.?

(that's about all the ideas I can come up with...)

--
Els http://locusmeus.com/
accessible web design: http://locusoptimus.com/