[KLUG Members] website woes, ps-pdf woes

[Mark Bystry]

i just picked up a new css book from sitepoint. i'm learning css too.

Mark Bystry
SuSE 9.3 Pro
KDE 3.4.1


Steve Petersen wrote the following on 9/6/2005 7:29 PM:
> Hey folks,
> 
> 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.)
> 
> 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, though they 
> look fine in Firefox and such.  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.
> 
> 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?
> 
> Thanks again for helping a poor computationally under-informed philosopher!
> 
> Steve
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