Losing the right hand margin of a printed web page

Theodoric · 23-08-2004, 18:50

I should know better, past experience considered, but I've just finished printing off 7 pages of flight details for someone, only to find that the most important part, the prices, had disappeared off the right hand side. So, I fell back on Plan B and printed them in landscape.

Surely it is possible to print things in portrait without losing the right hand strip. I have been told in the past that this is impossible (something to do with US Letter versus A4 dimensions, I believe) but would anyone like to prove me wrong?

Paul K · 23-08-2004, 19:00

Should be workable, when I send stuff to the printer I get the printer options dialogue where I tell it to fit to page which seems to do the trick. Sometimes web pages can be a pain to print though, had the same problem myself once but can't remember how I sorted it out

Edit:
Just tried a page and it seems to help if you save the page to hard drive and then open it in word, you then should be able to resixe it all to fit. Probably a better way to do it but until someone else tells us

Paul K · 23-08-2004, 19:10

In internet explorer under the file menu there is a page setup entry that you can use to adjust margins, that may help you get your prints how you want them. Try adjusting the margin widths etc to see if it helps??

Theodoric · 23-08-2004, 19:23

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Originally Posted by Paul

In internet explorer under the file menu there is a page setup entry that you can use to adjust margins, that may help you get your prints how you want them. Try adjusting the margin widths etc to see if it helps??

Thanks, I'll give it a try. However, it would be nice if the was some default setting that enabled you to do it once and for all.

zoombini · 24-08-2004, 09:03

It would be even nicer if the people that designed the webpages did not design them so that this happens all the time!

altis · 24-08-2004, 09:34

Most pages will resize to fit whatever they're displayed/printed on.

One major exception to this are pages that contain images - which are fixed at the size they were created. If an image is placed on a page so that it would extend over the RHS of the screen/page then the page is widened to fit the image - the image isn't shrunk to fit the page.

You could save the page, edit the HTML to take out the offending image and then try printing again. Or, as you said, switch to landscape format to print this page.

This often happens to me while printing out orders/invoices from web-based suppliers. Why web designers never bother to try this out defeats me. It gets really irritating when the problem is caused by a silly top bar in fancy graphics.

SMHarman · 24-08-2004, 10:20

I think it is also because a lot of designers work to US letter sized paper, this is slightly wider and often you are only losing 3 letters of so from the RHS. Just a guess.