Interesting.
When I open the page in IE6 it first of all flashes up as 'normal' and then
reduces to a2in wide column of blur.

Must be a 'feature' of IE6.
Incidently it works fine in Konqueror and Netscape 6.2

Frank
----- Original Message -----
From: "Mike Taylor" <on.lonewolf(at)nuvox.net>
To: <hwg-techniques(at)hwg.org>
Sent: Monday, July 22, 2002 11:43 AM
Subject: GIF mystery.


> I have a bit of a mystery on my hands.
>
> A customer complained that one of the commentaries another department
posts
> to our website won't print completely.  The commentary contained a graphic
> that was 655 x 2298 (yes, it's a doozy).
>
> I am using IE 6, as is the user.  Just for kicks I created a mock graphic
> the exact same size but with only a few portions filled with text.  The
same
> result occurred:  Only part of the graphic would print.
>
> If I try this same thing in IE 5.5, it prints the page with no problems.
> Likewise for Netscape 4.7.  But if I try in Netscape 6.2, it also shares
the
> IE 6 problem.
>
> Anyone run into this?  Is this a "feature," or are we looking at a
printing
> bug in the latest final version of both browsers?
>
> Granted, the graphic width is long and one could argue it should be broken
> up into smaller images...thing is, it should still have no problems
printing
> the complete image.
>
> I placed a test graphic on my personal site to play around with:
>
> http://w3.one.net/~lonewolf/020712earnings.gif

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