[KLUG Members] printing from mozilla

[Adam Williams]

>>Printing from any other application works fine.
>>Mozilla seems to send data in such format that
>>only the left hand side of a page fits on a sheet.
>Once again, my useless 2 cents (pennies are pretty useless to the
>end-user):
>Internet Explorer and Netscape react the same way to "wide" pages under
>Windows (especially pages with complex tables).  Many sites offer a

Unfortunately, yes.

>"printable" or "printer friendly" version of documents for this reason

Unfortunately, not all.  Of course ideally a user would never print a
page,  that isn't what web pages are for.

>(or offer a PDF which is generally better suited for printing anyhow).

Nothing is to stop the user from producing a pdf instead of printing the
page.  The required tools are all included with RedHat, and I assume every
modern distribution.

>I would be interested in hearing about a utility to "resize" pages who's
>width exceeds the printers standard, but still keeps things in ratio.
>Other than that.. maybe you could print in "Landscape"

As would I.  Theoretically it seems like gs can do this,  but I haven't
figured out how.

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