Printing web pages 'cuts' them up

Bevan C. Bennett bevan at fulcrummicro.com
Wed Feb 4 20:47:59 UTC 2004


Youssef Makki wrote:
> Hi everyone,
> 
> When I print web pages from Firebird, its like being printed on 1 big
> roll of paper and then being cut into A4's; If a picture for instance
> does not fit on the paper or what remains of it, I get half the image
> printed on 1 page and the rest of it continued on the other. What causes
> this to happen, and is it something one can change?

Not that it'll neccessarily help you, but the webpage author is supposed 
to be able to control this sort of thing using a CSS2 style sheet 
assigned for "print media" and properties like "page-break-before" and 
"orphans".





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