[GRLUG] print to file from web page inconsistent results

[Eric Beversluis]

On Thu, 2011-03-24 at 09:47 -0400, Roger Roelofs wrote:
> Eric,
> 
> On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 8:19 AM, Eric Beversluis
> <ebever at researchintegration.org> wrote:
> > Here's something that I've wondered about for a while:
> >
> > (Using Linux and Firefox):
> > I often like to use the print to file option to capture webpages as pdf
> > or ps (another feature that M$ chooses not to include--at least not the
> > option to print to a useable format).
> >
> > But while everything normally works nicely, with some webpages only the
> > first (print) page or so of the web page gets printed to file.
> 
> 9 times out of 10 this happens because the site is using css absolute
> position for the main content.  This takes the entire page content out
> of the normal document flow, so the print subsystem thinks there is
> only one page.  If you need it badly enough, you can override the site
> styles to fix this.  If you don't care too much about the style of the
> page, you can turn css off and then print.
> 
Again, thanks. I thought there might be stuff like this going on, but I
didn't know what it was.


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