[Web4lib] Printing Web Pages

[Mark Gilman]

IE7 promises to deliver better printing functionality.  See this thread for
details:
 
http://blogs.msdn.com/ie/archive/2005/07/31/445778.aspx
<http://blogs.msdn.com/ie/archive/2005/07/31/445778.aspx> 
 
I second the idea of using CSS to invoke a separate style sheet.  Eric
Meyer's site has good, basic info:
 
http://www.meyerweb.com/eric/articles/webrev/200001.html
<http://www.meyerweb.com/eric/articles/webrev/200001.html> 
 
What would be useful is if IE7 would support generated content so that one
could choose to have the full path URL display in parentheses after
the link using the the attr() function.  For more info, see:
 
http://www.westciv.com/style_master/academy/css_tutorial/advanced/generated_
content.html
<http://www.westciv.com/style_master/academy/css_tutorial/advanced/generated
_content.html>  
 
Opera handles it well.
 
Regards,
Mark Gilman
 
Municipal Reference Librarian
Urban Information Center
Dallas Public Library
1515 Young St., 6th floor.
Dallas, TX 75201
214-670-1482
http://dallaslibrary.org/cgi/cui.htm <http://dallaslibrary.org/cgi/cui.htm> 
 
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mailto:web4lib-bounces at webjunction.org] On Behalf Of Charles Gambrell

Sent: Thursday, April 20, 2006 9:50 AM

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Subject: [Web4lib] Printing Web Pages

 

We seem to encounter more and more pages that fail to print as our 

customers want. The right side of the web page is not printed.

Does anyone have a fairly easy solution for this problem?

Thanks for any help you can give.