web pages as handouts

Joe Barker jbarker at library.berkeley.edu
Thu Mar 5 15:07:53 EST 1998


I am able to adjust the font size until I get the page breaks in
acceptable places when I print web pages for handouts.
Joe Barker
Teaching Library, UC Berkeley

On Thu, 5 Mar 1998, jgresham wrote:

> We are interested in using our bibliographies and user guides on the web
> as handouts (currently we edit each document twice once for the web once
> for a handout) If we just print our the web pages, they look ok except
> for the page breaks not always at the best place -- we would like to
> just  create these items once (as an html page) and simply print those
> as our handouts. (I have tried exporting or saving word processing
> documents into html, but then it seems I do so much editing of the
> result it would have been easier to create the html version from plain
> text so I still end up editing it twice) The basic question is if there
> is an html trick to force page breaks or some other solutions to get web
> pages to print out as nice looking handouts.
> thanks, 
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