Re: Printer friendly version of wide html

My experience is that generally speaking, a std letter-sized portrait
page equates to about 1 full width browser window - obviously there
are all kinds of variations.  There isn't a whole lot you can do about
it without over-coding to the point of remove the attractiveness of
the browser interface.

Suggestions -- 

1. Work with the user and train him/her to print landscape, perhaps on
legal or tabloid paper, to get the whole width of the column.

2. Reorganize the screen to fit in a browser window.  Remember that
you are not limited to one row of data on a single line of the table,
you can use the rowspam html attribute to effective "merge cells".  If
they like the linear approach, you can have an alternate "printer
friendly" version.

3.  Does every column need to be on every row?  The HTML table isn't a
subfile; you can make every row different if necessary.

4. Maybe the solution isn't to print, but instead to prepare in CSV
for use in Excel.

Good luck.

On Wed, 3 Nov 2004 08:57:58 -0700, Kevin Touchette
<ktouchette@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Can anyone suggest a method for handling this scenario.  I have a web
> page that is an html table three times the width of a browser screen.
> The user needs a printer friendly version of this screen.  Can someone
> suggest how I handle this.  Is there a tool that will convert nicely to
> a PDF?  Has anyone done this?  Normally I limit the width of html to
> what a user can see but it doesn't work for the user in this case.
> 
> Thanks in advance.
> 
> Kevin R. Touchette
> 
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