Posted by Michael Laplante on 05/03/06 00:21

"Jonathan N. Little" <lws4art@centralva.net> wrote in message
news:4457c93a$0$3695$cb0e7fc6@news.centralva.net...
> Michael Laplante wrote:

> Page margins for printing are the user and browser not the website
> designer and therein lies your problem.

I have come across articles by people who've successfully attempted the
problem with CSS. Summarizing their technique, they produce margins that
were larger than the typical margins found in printer setups. The user can
make the margins smaller but not bigger.

I won't quibble the merits of whether this is a service or disservice to the
end user. I just want to do the same thing.

In all these articles though, they are printing out small pages that
normally didn't straddle more than a page. A few of them referred to the
multipage DIV issue with Gecko browsers and could offer no solutions beyond
variations of the ones I've already suggested myself.

I guess I'm stuck with PDF or perhaps selectively removing CSS formatting
and providing some sort of instructions for users on how to adjust the page
margins in their software.

M

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