On 02/12/2011 06:29 PM, NoOp wrote: > On 02/10/2011 07:39 PM, Paul B. Gallagher wrote: >> This goes back all the way to Mozilla, so it may be a W3C compliance >> issue, but it's annoying nevertheless. >> >> On many websites, I can't seem to get a decent printout. For example, my >> local paper has a searchable obituaries page, and I got 60 hits on my >> last search, but it would only print the first page. I can see the rest >> on screen, but I can't get them out on paper. >> >> <http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/montgomerynews/obituary-search.aspx?page=1&affiliateid=2762&countryid=1&daterange=88888&stateid=49&startdate=20110116&enddate=20110210&entriesperpage=50> >> >> This returns 60 hits, of which the first 50 are displayed, but only >> seven will print. In fact, in print preview, the first page is the page >> header with no content, the second page is the first page of content, >> and the third page is the page footer. That's it. The other 43 hits have >> vanished. >> >> I've tried this with several different printers, including Adobe >> Acrobat, and they're all the same. Mozilla and SeaMonkey seem to think >> the second page is 10 feet tall and print only the first 11 inches. >> >> Needless to say, it prints fine in Internet Exploiter (except the header >> page, which is the same in both). >> >> Any ideas? I hate wasting ink and paper on ads, and I really hate having >> to switch browsers whenever I want to print something. > > Yes, switch to Google Chrome/Chromium to print. > > Attempting to print that page (an most any web page) in anything Mozilla > is akin to spitting into the wind & keeping dry. Mozilla (SeaMonkey and > FF) has had issues for years with printing; I provided some examples on > the dev group/list awhile back & was told that it was my OS that was the > problem: > > http://web.archiveorange.com/archive/v/JUslgS4dmgZfEKK87TXI > <http://groups.google.com/group/mozilla.dev.apps.seamonkey/browse_frm/thread/48fffae1a06d4c58/9bbf55890c22c896?tvc=1#9bbf55890c22c896> > > So I then switch operating systems (from linux to Win7) and... well you > can read the entire thread for the responses. > > I've also tried printing your web page on SM 2.1x and FF 4.x and it's > still the same. Just install Chrome/Chromium and print it from there - > you'll save yourself a ton of aggravation & the print will work out of > the box.
Sorry, forgot to add that here is a link of your web page printed to pdf from chromium: <http://img28.imageshack.us/i/job201orgchromiumrhh8ug.pdf/> _______________________________________________ support-seamonkey mailing list support-seamonkey@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
