[TriLUG] Printing from the Web

Brian Henning brian at strutmasters.com
Wed Jul 13 10:32:34 EDT 2005


Hi Guys,
   I can't seem to win for losing on this one.  Does anyone out there 
have a no-problems printing solution when it comes to printing from the 
web?  I have three web browsers to choose from, and all of them have 
their own unique problems..  Here's the skinny, and perhaps someone can 
say, "Hey, I know how to make browser ___ stop doing ____"..

NB: In the following descriptions, I use the word "image" to mean the 
logical print layout, and not to mean a graphic image file.

Opera - Used for 99% of browsing.
  Opera's printing problem: Scaling.
  At 100%, the image is too large for the page.  Lower scaling factors
  appear to be applied twice; 80% appears to first shrink the page layout
  to where it fits the page, then shrinks the entire page image to where
  the printed page image takes only 80% of the paper.

Galeon - System default browser
  Galeon's printing problem: Landscape
  Galeon lays out the printed page correctly without the scaling problem
  that Opera exhibits.  However, Galeon's landscape option results in the
  page image turning landscape, but still being laid on the paper in
  portrait orientation (as if you printed a landscape page and viewed it
  through a portrait orientation window).

Mozilla - Almost never used.
  Moz's printing problem: No Landscape option whatsoever.

None of these weirdnesses appear to be printer-related; each manifests 
exactly the same way regardless of what printer I use, or if I print to 
a file.  CUPS is my backend.

Anyone have any suggestions to fix any of the aforementioned problems? 
Or suggestions of other browsers to try?

Thanks a bunch; see some of you tomorrow.

~Brian



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