[KLUG Members] website woes, ps-pdf woes

[Adam Tauno Williams]

> I'm working up a website to try to get myself hired this fall for the 
> '06 school year (anyone need a philosopher?).  This has led recently 
> to two linux-related problems that I'd love to get help on.
> 1.  I got a latex .sty file for making my CV with a pretty format, 
> and it looks nice in dvi and in the ps viewer.  But when I print the 
> ps file, or convert the ps to pdf, the top of the page gets cut off.  
> It skips the header completely, and starts printing content near the 
> very close to the top of the paper.  Any idea why this might happen 
> or how to fix it?  (Files available upon request, of course.)

Your template is A4 and you are producing a Letter PDF?

> 2.  I've put up a website for my portfolio and such.  I've been 
> learning the pains of CSS and its battle with IE first-hand.  The 
> site is
>   http://stevepetersen.net
> (some links still dead).  I have two questions with this:
> 2a. I discovered IE makes these CSS boxes look really ugly,

:)

> they look fine in Firefox and such.

Of course.

> Any ideas for quick fixes?  As it stands now the CSS requests two 
> columns, the menu floating left and taking up 15% of the window, the 
> content floating right.  Do I need to fix the widths to pixels?  
> Allowing poured boxes seems better to me.

Possibly.  Create a separate CSS file for each browser and serve up the
appropriate one automatically to the client via mod_rewrite.

> 2b. In Opera the named anchors don't work when the CSS is applied, 
> though in the plain HTML (no CSS) they work fine.  Why?  How to fix?

Yep, Opera sucks.  Don't worry about it.

> Thanks again for helping a poor computationally under-informed philosopher!

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Adam Tauno Williams - http://www.whitemice.org