please help me fix this printing bug...

[CJacobson]

I know there must be an easy fix... but I can't get Firefox or Netscape to print my website properly. On any webpage that requires more than one sheet of paper they only want to print the first sheet.

I've already tried using style="page-break-after: always;" as you can see here: http://www.storyboardtoys.com/galler...pagebreaks.htm

You might think adding "float: none" to my style sheet would fix the problem... I already tried that too. You can see my CSS code here: www.storyboardtoys.com/printstyle1.css

Please help me - it's driving me nuts to have to use IE or Opera when printing hard copies of my pages.

THANKS!

[davebarnes]

I don't see the problem.

I printed 1 webpage ( http://store.yahoo.com/storyboardtoys/ ) to a 6 page PDF using FireFox 1.0 under Windows 2000.
Worked exactly as I expected.

,dave

P.S. I could not print http://www.storyboardtoys.com/gallery.htm because PDFWriter ran out of memory even though I have 1GB of RAM.

[CJacobson]

Dave, Thanks for giving it a try! But sadly the page that printed isn't actually my code. It's Yahoo's, because I use their service for it's secure shopping cart, etc.

I didn't think to try a PDF program... When you're browsing and you want a hard copy do you always convert HTML to PDF first? Sounds like something Apple would do. (wink!)

I especially want the multi-sheet "gallery" parts of my website to print properly and easily because otherwise they aren't so convenient a resource for school teachers looking for lists of project ideas. My pages print fine in IE and Opera - but they get truncated in Gecko-based browsers on the PC and two Macs I validate on.

[rivux]

Originally Posted by CJacobson

I didn't think to try a PDF program... When you're browsing and you want a hard copy do you always convert HTML to PDF first? Sounds like something Apple would do. (wink!)

I save everything as PDF before printing as well, there is a great free print to pdf product called CutePDF

http://www.cutepdf.com/Products/CutePDF/writer.asp

[CJacobson]

Okay, thanks for the recommendation... but can't someone please tell me how to fix this bug? It must be an easy-to-fix and common problem.

If visitors want to print www.storyboardtoys.com/NAEYC-accreditation.htm directly from Firefox/Netscape, they should be able to. I don't want to say "Come back when they have a print-to-pdf program."

Firefox and Netscape print other websites with tables that span multiple sheets of paper. The problem isn't memory: this page only totals 85K. "page-break-before" doesn't fix the problem. The HTML and CSS validate.

Hasn't someone else encountered a problem like this?

[speed]

Hi CJacobson,

In your CSS for printing change #main2 to:

#main2 { position: relative }

It fixes it for Firefox to allow the page to be split over 2 output pages, you might need to play with some of the other classes etc.

[CJacobson]

Speed, THANK YOU - That's a big help !!!!!

I've updated the print stylesheet and my visitors will be able to print all the images... but I do need to tune other stuff now. (Text in the left-hand block doesn't continue to the second page, etc.) Coding for printing is a pain!

[speed]

Your trouble basically stems from using absolute positioning, if you do away with that then it should all just work.

While you're at it I'd get rid of the layout tables and use pure CSS for the layout as I find that makes it simple to get pages formatted for print.

The other thing is do the visitors really need the navigation in the print out? If not then you can just hide it with 'display: none', might save some work.