OT (maybe) - blog printing

Quite often, I come across great needlework tutorials that people have posted in their blogs. When I try to print some of them, the first page often has just the banner; the content starts on the second page and everything that extends past that page's margins disappears. Firefox is my browser of choice but the same thing happens in IE. A post found by googling seemed to indicate that it was the blogger's fault for not setting it up correctly.

Does anyone know of a fix from the reader side?

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anne
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Don't know if this will help but have you tried highlighting the text and then when you hit print just tell it to print the hightlighted text? The other option of course is to highlight and then do a copy and paste into a word processing program. Beverly B

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BeverlyB

What I would try is to save the blog. File - Save as. Note what name is used, or give it your own name. Then go off line, find the file, and see what happens. Jim.

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F.James Cripwell

Changing the page setup from Portrait to Landscape? That might bring long lines in. My preferred way to deal with this problem is to copy the text into Word. If I also want the figures, I copy them one by one and insert them in the Word file where needed. It involves a little more work, but at least I shall have everything needed for that project in one place! Incidentally, I may mention that's how I started a Jacobean embroidery project from the Embroiderer's Guild website.

-Shanti

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Shanti

I find that printing web pages (which can be quite "long" and/or "wide") is often tricky. I cured that by using PDFcreator , much easier. (No connection with the product, just a satisfied user) Bruce

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Bruce Fletcher (Stronsay, Orkn

Thanks for all the suggestions. FYI, I've done the save as, copy/paste, changed orientation and scale, and create PDF document procedures but was hoping someone knew of something to overcome the (*&^%$ bad coding for most blog servers.

I know it's the blog servers' fault because I created several on different sites. When doing a print preview or PDF print, wordpress.com was the only one I tried that didn't insist on the banner being on its own page and created new pages if needed instead of arbitrarily cropping content at the botton of page 2. Admittedly, my experiments were brief but I didn't easily see customization options to overcome this problem.

Note to all you bloggers who are kind enough to post content that you want people to be able to print, please dig around or bombard the site management with pleas for fixes.

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anne

I always do a Print Preview before printing a web site (blog or otherwise). I know in MS Exploder you can print frames individually, together or just the "active" frame (eliminates the banners and side frames so that just the text/pictures you want will print). I think there's a way to do that in Firefox, but I don't remember how to get to it.

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Magic Mood Jee

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