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This is not strictly an XP problem but this is a very helpful group. I just tried to print the display of evaporative coolers at Home Depot though Firefox. I get 20 coolers or more on the screen, but the printout only shows 6 or so. I've seen this often at many web sites. The Firefox print preview shows the same thing. This is very annoying. Is this a Firefox problem or the web site is designed that way? Anyone know? Is there a way around this problem? TIA -- You know it's time to clean the refrigerator when something closes the door from the inside. |
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"KenK" wrote in message
... I just tried to print the display of evaporative coolers at Home Depot though Firefox. I get 20 coolers or more on the screen, but the printout only shows 6 or so. I've seen this often at many web sites. The Firefox print preview shows the same thing. This is very annoying. Is this a Firefox problem or the web site is designed that way? Anyone know? This is a web site problem, not yours. You may meet your needs by the Windows PrintScreen key: 1. Maximise the browser window to fill the screen. 2. Adjust image size to get into view the samples you want. 3 Key Alt+PrintScreen. 4. Load your colour graphics app and /Copy/ onto a blank file your screen image. -- Don Phillipson Carlsbad Springs (Ottawa, Canada) |
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On 8/18/16 11:09 AM, KenK wrote:
This is not strictly an XP problem but this is a very helpful group. I just tried to print the display of evaporative coolers at Home Depot though Firefox. I get 20 coolers or more on the screen, but the printout only shows 6 or so. I've seen this often at many web sites. The Firefox print preview shows the same thing. This is very annoying. Is this a Firefox problem or the web site is designed that way? Anyone know? Is there a way around this problem? TIA It could be a Firefox problem. Try another browser, see if it prints. I've run across numerous sites that FF cannot print that other browsers have no problem with. IMO, they are either unwilling or uninterested in fixing the problem. -- Ken Mac OS X 10.8.5 Firefox 44.0 Thunderbird 38.0.1 "My brain is like lightning, a quick flash and it's gone!" |
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[Default] On Thu, 18 Aug 2016 20:52:52 -0400, in
microsoft.public.windowsxp.general "Don Phillipson" wrote: "KenK" wrote in message ... I just tried to print the display of evaporative coolers at Home Depot though Firefox. I get 20 coolers or more on the screen, but the printout only shows 6 or so. I've seen this often at many web sites. The Firefox print preview shows the same thing. This is very annoying. Is this a Firefox problem or the web site is designed that way? Anyone know? This is a web site problem, not yours. You may meet your needs by the Windows PrintScreen key: 1. Maximise the browser window to fill the screen. IIUC, you're including both maximizing the window and pressing F11 to eliminate wasted space at the top and bottom. 2. Adjust image size to get into view the samples you want. 3 Key Alt+PrintScreen. IIUC the Alt is used to print only one frame, or maybe the opposite, and if I'm right, it's been my experience that frames are rarely used these days -- the frame is the screen and the screen is the frame -- so PrintScreen by itself works the same. 4. Load your colour graphics app and /Copy/ onto a blank file your screen image. You remind me of my problem, so to piggy-back on this issue (I hope you don't mind) my problem (also not an XP problem, but maybe you have some advice) has not so much been the scope of the print job but its legibility, but only when using Google Maps (and maybe other maps programs). While the maps are very legible on my CRT or LED desktop screen, when I've zoomed in to show small roads, to help myself wander around the countryside, the small roads print so dim that I can't see them on the paper. I can only see the scattered road numbers but not the roads themselvs. The whole map is dimmer than the description of the map that I've typed in, which is perfect, but despite being dim, the major roads are visible, just not the minor roads and the location of minor towns (though the names of towns are visible). So people told me, No one uses paper maps anymore. Use your cell phone. So I downloaded the maps in advance** since there is no wifi on the road (and I don't have Data) but when I looked at my phone, it was just as illegible as the paper, even in the shade!!! Any suggestions. **With google maps you can store each one for 30 days, and renew the time period, almost automatically, for another 30 days . |
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KenK wrote:
This is not strictly an XP problem but this is a very helpful group. I just tried to print the display of evaporative coolers at Home Depot though Firefox. I get 20 coolers or more on the screen, but the printout only shows 6 or so. I've seen this often at many web sites. The Firefox print preview shows the same thing. This is very annoying. Is this a Firefox problem or the web site is designed that way? Anyone know? Is there a way around this problem? TIA It's a website design issue. It isn't to do with printing as such. It would appear some sort of "frame" around the page of evaporative coolers dives under the boundaries of the page. I tested on old browsers and new browsers, some of each, and the page rendering is mainly the same on all of them. The print job is either three or four pages, when it should be around 13-15 pages. The only way to bandaid the problem, is use a "large page" print driver. I have one driver, which I can use for Print To File, which has 108 inch tall pages. And in that way, the frame that takes a dive, more of that page would be captured. But once you'd done that, it would be pretty difficult to post process it to make it useful for any other purpose. I don't think I can quite capture all the search results that way. I'd miss a few. As a test, I set the page scale to 10% or something, and managed to get the thing rendered into just one page. It was of course, too tiny to read. Paul |
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Hello Ken
Is there a way around this problem? While it might not suit your wishes regarding the final outcome, you could try to switch the pages style to "no style" (view - page style - no style) and than print. Regards, Rudy Wieser -- Origional message: KenK schreef in berichtnieuws ... This is not strictly an XP problem but this is a very helpful group. I just tried to print the display of evaporative coolers at Home Depot though Firefox. I get 20 coolers or more on the screen, but the printout only shows 6 or so. I've seen this often at many web sites. The Firefox print preview shows the same thing. This is very annoying. Is this a Firefox problem or the web site is designed that way? Anyone know? Is there a way around this problem? TIA -- You know it's time to clean the refrigerator when something closes the door from the inside. |
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In message , Micky
writes: [Default] On Thu, 18 Aug 2016 20:52:52 -0400, in microsoft.public.windowsxp.general "Don Phillipson" wrote: "KenK" wrote in message .. . I just tried to print the display of evaporative coolers at Home Depot though Firefox. I get 20 coolers or more on the screen, but the printout only shows 6 or so. I've seen this often at many web sites. The Firefox print preview shows the same thing. This is very annoying. Is this a Firefox problem or the web site is designed that way? Anyone know? This is a web site problem, not yours. You may meet your Yes and no. Firefox's ability to print pages that have coding that makes them print differently to how they appear on screen does _differ_ from, for example, IE's ability to do the same thing: F is usually worse. (At least the print preview shows what you'd get without having to waste time and ink.) It seems at its worst when there's what looks like some sort of table: it gets the start of the table only. I wish there was a way to overwrite a page's coding and just print what I see; changing to no style, or similar, changes the screem appearance too. Knowing Firefox, there probably _is_ a plugin (or whatever) that does offer this ability. needs by the Windows PrintScreen key: 1. Maximise the browser window to fill the screen. IIUC, you're including both maximizing the window and pressing F11 to eliminate wasted space at the top and bottom. 2. Adjust image size to get into view the samples you want. 3 Key Alt+PrintScreen. IIUC the Alt is used to print only one frame, or maybe the opposite, and if I'm right, it's been my experience that frames are rarely used these days -- the frame is the screen and the screen is the frame -- so PrintScreen by itself works the same. No, Alt-PrtScn just captures the currently-active _window_ - nothing to do with frames within a webpage; it eliminates, for example, the taskbar, as compared to PrtScn on its own, which captures the whole screen. If you've done F11 anyway, it probably makes no difference. 4. Load your colour graphics app and /Copy/ onto a blank file your screen image. You remind me of my problem, so to piggy-back on this issue (I hope you don't mind) my problem (also not an XP problem, but maybe you have some advice) has not so much been the scope of the print job but its legibility, but only when using Google Maps (and maybe other maps programs). While the maps are very legible on my CRT or LED desktop screen, when I've zoomed in to show small roads, to help myself wander around the countryside, the small roads print so dim that I can't see them on the paper. I can only see the scattered road numbers but not the roads themselvs. The whole map is dimmer than the description of the map that I've typed in, which is perfect, but despite being dim, the major roads are visible, just not the minor roads and the location of minor towns (though the names of towns are visible). IF you _are_ using some sort of screen grab, lighten the images in whatever graphic software you're using before you print them (you may or may not have to adjust the contrast as well); as well as fixing the above problem, you'll also use less ink. So people told me, No one uses paper maps anymore. Use your cell phone. So I downloaded the maps in advance** since there is no wifi on the road (and I don't have Data) but when I looked at my phone, it was just as illegible as the paper, even in the shade!!! Any suggestions. **With google maps you can store each one for 30 days, and renew the time period, almost automatically, for another 30 days . That sounds as if you're _not_ just using screen grab in that case, so I can't help there. -- J. P. Gilliver. UMRA: 1960/1985 MB++G()AL-IS-Ch++(p)Ar@T+H+Sh0!:`)DNAf .... the closest thing the movies have ever got to a human special effect. - Barry Norman on Arnold Schwarzenegger (RT 2014/9/27-10/3) |
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