printing a web page from IE (W98)

[naradaji]

Hello,

Many times, when I try to print out a web page it just doesn't fit in a normal A4 page. Is there a way to print from IE so that it all fits (width-wise, I'm not speaking about the docuemnt's lenght) in one page?
So far what I've bben doing is pasting it into a spreadsheet, and that in 'Page break preview' it's easy to define this...

How can I do this?

-- narada

[report_2]

For the same reason I no longer use the 'Print' button.
I always right click on the portion of the page that I want to print and select Print. If I suspect it will not print the entire width then I change the print layout to Landscape.

[naradaji]

I select part of it, right click, press 'print' and it still prints the whole page!

[report_2]

Yes, that is true unless the page is using frames then you will only get the frame that you select.

Either way, if you select the print layout to be landscape then you should get all of the width.

[naradaji]

Isn't there a way to configure it so that its width fits the page, like in excel?????

[report_2]

On mine, yes.

In IE go to File, Print Setup.
Click on the Printer button and then the printer's Properties button. In the layout tab you will find the option to 'Fit to Page'

HTH

[naradaji]

Thanks a lot.
I don't have a 'fit to page' option, though :-(

-- narada

[jdharm]

Settings like that will vary with the printer drivers and application. Try updating your drivers.

Also, when sellecting just a section of a page and printing, you must choose the "Selection" radio button in the print dialog box. It is in the section called Print Range and has a list that includes "All", "Selection", and "Pages".

Josh

The proceeding was from the "For What It's Worth" files, which by definition may be worthless. Take with a grain or ten of salt.

[kef999]

Yes, for as long as I can remember, I've been plagued by this problem as well. So much of the Internet's webpages have been designed by Americans and non-Europeans who assume, quite wrongly, that everyone works with American letter size pages. Well, Europe (including the UK) uses A4, which is narrower than the American format and so when we Europeans go to print out webpages, as often as not the edges get cut off.

My own strategy is to click on File/Print Preview, just to quickly check if the pages will fit. Occasionally, they will. If not, I go back and do File/Page Setup and try reducing the left and right margins. I then return to Print Preview to see if that does the trick. If no luck there, it usually comes down to switching to landscape mode in the Page Setup. However, that's unsatisfactory and often results in text or graphics being sliced at the end of the physical page.

I've found that, on MY hardware (nothing too special) there just isn't a 'fit to page' option.

If only webpage designers would spend a little more time considering the different page sizes in use around the world ......

And what's super-maddening is when you finally print out the batch of pages and find that totally unnecessary extra one that's got just one line of useless text alone on the page. (Skimming through to the last page in Print Preview and then limiting the number of pages printed helps, but doesn't always work, does it?). No wonder we're running out of forests!

I think whether you encounter the 'fit to page 'option depends on the printer driver you happen to have. It's not a commonly found option.

[naradaji]

Exactly, kef999! I don't have that 'fit to page' either! I like your strategy and I will try to use it, though having a 'fit t opage' would be so much faster.
Thanks so much for your help.

-- narada