I see you have set the container width at 760px. Does anyone know what is
the maximum number of pixels for page width in order to avoid truncating the
text along the left side of a print job? Even Microsoft's support pages
suffer from this same problem . . . really maddening when trying to solve a
technical problem.
How wide is a piece of paper? Well... twice half its width... Or in CSS terms, 100%, not N pixels or N ems. If you think about it, the width you've got to work with depends on the paper size being used (letter, A4, Executive, etc.), orientation (portrait or landscape), and margins, varying with the printer and the user's preferences. In other words, you can't predict print width any more than you can predict browser width. Best to design layouts that can roll with the terrain. You can take the short-cut of guessing what most of your users might be using in the way of paper size and printer margins, but why design a page to break for everyone else? Use a max-width strategy to keep the layout from attenuating on really wide paper and perhaps a min-width strategy to force spill-over to a second sheet to accommodate illustrations that can't be shrunk, and let everything that can flow, flow.
Regards,
Paul
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