printing to pdf prob

James p3nndrag0n at gmail.com
Thu Apr 14 00:24:27 UTC 2011


Hi Gary

> On 04/12/2011 06:37 PM, James wrote:
> > Hi NoOp
> > 
> >> On 04/10/2011 06:13 PM, James wrote:
> >> ...
> >> 
> >> > I have however managed a tempory workaround which is a bit 
of a
> >> > pain, i.e. to manually highlight the entire webpage and then 
go go
> > 
> > into
> > 
> >> > print file and choose selection. Haven;t tried with direct print 
to
> > 
> > pdf
> > 
> >> > but suspect it works there too. Just a pain to remember to do 
that
> > 
> > when
> > 
> >> > I need for now
> >> 
> >> Do you have a uri/url to the webpage you are trying to print?
> > 
> > Yep. The page is
> > 
> > http://gnetools.sourceforge.net/xbsupport/index.html
> > 
> > James
> 
> It's not a cups/gnome-print/cups-pdf issue. The problem is the 
website
> frame. I tested using both print-to-file/PDF and print to cups-pdf in
> SeaMonkey, Firefox (3.x and 4.x), Chromium, Epiphany, and Opera 
(Opera
> 11 crashes) with pretty much the same results (1 page).
> 
> To get all 6/7/8[1] pages: right click on the frame (the one with
> 'News') and select: This Frame|Open Frame in a New Tab. Now print 
that
> to PDF (either print-to-file/PDF or print to cups-pdf) and you should 
be
> fine.
> 
> HTH
> 
> Gary
> 
> 
> [1] the number of pages will depend upon which browser you use & 
their
> font settings. But all will contain the full content. I get these
> (cups-pdf):
> Opera: 6 pages
> FireFox 3.6.16/FF4: 7 pages
> SeaMonkey 2.1b3: 7 pages
> Chrome/Chromium/Ephiphany: doen't have an option to open the 
frame in
> another tab/window. Or, if they do I don't know how to do it.

Thx
Will keep that in mind and check the webpage when I come across 
that again

James




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