Re: Options for print-formatting problematic web page

Firstly -
I don't  really know as i'm a newbie -

but i have just read "DHTML & CSS for the WWW" (Visual QuickStart  byt
Teague).
He has a section on "looking good in print" which talks about a page-break:

quotes:
<h3 style=" page-break-before: always;" >CHAPTER VIII<br>...</h3>

...
"always" forces a page break before the element;
"auto" allows the browser to place the page breaks.

The attribute will not work if it is included as part of a CSS rule - only
if it is used directly in a tag with a style attribute.

page-break-after works pretty much the same way, but puts the page break
immedaitely after the tag.


It apparently doesn't work everywhere; but it does in the main big browsers.

hth-

hilma
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Jay Smith" <jay(at)JaySmith.com>
To: "hwg-techniques" <hwg-techniques(at)hwg.org>
Sent: Thursday, April 04, 2002 5:09 AM
Subject: Options for print-formatting problematic web page


> Hi,
>
> I am really stuck.
>
> I have a page at
> http://www.jaysmith.com/Resource/Articles/den_postfaerge_forgeries.html
> that I need to PRINT (in color) for handout at a presentation.
>
> I have tried printing from IE 5.00.3something and it arbitrarily
> splits the pictures in the middle instead of dividing between tables.
> (I have generally had just as much trouble with NS 4.7.x in this
> regard, but I gave up trying when it was taking _forever_ to download
> the thing (has to do it all over again for printing).  This is a
> really big web page, with really big (hi res) images.
>
> I have tried using Adobe's Capture site (5 free) and they made a PDF
> file (crosswise on the page, but they made one) that IS paginated
> pretty much okay, BUT I cannot print it at all (gets stack errors) on
> any printer we have including those with "genuine Adobe postscript".
> I think the problem is that it is produced by Capture 5, but I am on
> Win95 and stuck with Acrobat Exchange 3.0.1 -- which is a bit old --
> and Adobe PS 4.x drivers, which are also a bit old.
>
> Other than manually mucking with a copy of the web page to add
> vertical space so the page breaks are sane, what are my options?
>
> I really don't want to completely redo this with a print publishing
> program.
>
> Jay
>
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>
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