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Posted: Friday, June 11, 2004 - 09:12 PM UTC
Jim,

I noticed a little problem with the feature the other day but forgot to mention it.

I recently looked at the great feature on making terra cotta roof tiles and wanted to print the article by using the "print version" button

https://armorama.kitmaker.net//features/376

In the article there are several pictures to explain the process but when you hit the print button you only get the text (and the one main pincture inbedded in the text), all the other pictures do not show on the print

https://armorama.kitmaker.net/modules.php?op=modload&name=Sections&file=index&req=printpage&artid=376
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Posted: Friday, June 11, 2004 - 10:44 PM UTC
Interesting item.

As long as we're talking about printing, I used to print off favorite threads from the site, (so I'd have them handy in hard copy), but several months ago, the register appears to be off, i.e. the narrative and any associated pictures are chopped off too soon on the right margin, (even if printed landscaped).

I'm assuming this is an issue on my end. Any computer experts have an idea of what needs to be changed so I can print the entrie document without losing anything outside the margins? Thanks.

Steve
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Posted: Saturday, June 12, 2004 - 07:36 AM UTC
I have to admit I am not a big fan of printing web sites. Kind of almost goes back to the days of "Print it now cause it will be gone in a year!"

It probably would be a good idea for editors to embed images into the main text if they are doing a "technique" article I guess. But for articles with a lot of images (like Scott's recent diorama article) it would be impossible to include all the images in a printed version (unless they are the thumbs).

Jim
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Posted: Saturday, June 12, 2004 - 07:38 AM UTC

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Interesting item.

As long as we're talking about printing, I used to print off favorite threads from the site, (so I'd have them handy in hard copy), but several months ago, the register appears to be off, i.e. the narrative and any associated pictures are chopped off too soon on the right margin, (even if printed landscaped).

I'm assuming this is an issue on my end. Any computer experts have an idea of what needs to be changed so I can print the entrie document without losing anything outside the margins? Thanks.

Steve


Steve,
This would depend on the image size right? Not an easy way around this issue either. Although some better (ussually laser) printers have settings to scale a page smaller (like 80% ussually works).

Jim
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