Microsoft Publisher - RE: How do I get large images to print in Publisher-created webpag

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RE: How do I get large images to print in Publisher-created webpag

RoyL

2005-04-04, 12:01 pm

David,
Thank you for your kind reply. As my original post indicated, it wasn't a
'width-thing' of which I was complaining (my web pages are all 600 pixels for
the very reasons you give), but rather the image was too long. That is
something over which I really have little easy control. The image is simply
longer than a typical page. (I could break the image in half, but then I can
never edit the page for fear that I would shove things around too much.)

My end readers don't mind that the image ends up being printed top-half
on one page and bottom-half on the other. The problem is that the top half
doesn't print at all (but the bottom half does on the second page, so we are
half-way there). I was curious to know if there is a print image control
somewhere that I don't know about. Is this a Publisher issue or a browser
issue, or a combination?

RoyL

"David Bartosik" wrote:
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> Web pages aren't typically designed with the intent of end printing. Usually
> to get a fairly decent print out of a page you need to adjust page setting in
> the browser to the smallest margins allowed and then typically may have to
> switch to landscape mode as well.
> As a site designer if you want to make it easier on the visitor you supply a
> "print friendly" version of the page. Surely you have seen site with "print"
> links and/or buttons.
> For example - http://publishermvps.com/Default.aspx?tabid=157
>
> Ideally to do this with publisher you make a second pub file with the same
> pages but you dumb the design down to have no images and you change the site
> width to 600. These print friendly pages are then linked to from the original
> site pages.
>
> Optionally you can just create a page in the existing web publication that
> you copy the content object to and then make the box 600 pixels wide. And
> then just internally link the pages.
>
> David Bartosik - [MSFT MVP]
> http://www.publishermvps.com
> http://www.davidbartosik.com
>
> "RoyL" wrote:
>

David Bartosik

2005-04-04, 12:01 pm

So you are talking about printing a single image versus a page? I'd call that
a design issue. Why does the image have to be that size? Why is it being
printed in the first place? The proper way to handle this if indeed you must
is that you compress the image in a zip file and upload that. You can then
link to that zip file off a link put on a small version of the image on the
web page (called a thumbnail). The visitor then downloads the zip and locally
opens the image file. When they open the file locally it will open in their
default image program which would provide for printing the image according to
their printer abilities and the type and size of paper they specify.

David Bartosik - [MSFT MVP]
http://www.publishermvps.com
http://www.davidbartosik.com

"RoyL" wrote:
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> David,
> Thank you for your kind reply. As my original post indicated, it wasn't a
> 'width-thing' of which I was complaining (my web pages are all 600 pixels for
> the very reasons you give), but rather the image was too long. That is
> something over which I really have little easy control. The image is simply
> longer than a typical page. (I could break the image in half, but then I can
> never edit the page for fear that I would shove things around too much.)
>
> My end readers don't mind that the image ends up being printed top-half
> on one page and bottom-half on the other. The problem is that the top half
> doesn't print at all (but the bottom half does on the second page, so we are
> half-way there). I was curious to know if there is a print image control
> somewhere that I don't know about. Is this a Publisher issue or a browser
> issue, or a combination?
>
> RoyL
>
> "David Bartosik" wrote:
>

Outlook 2003 email problems

2005-08-05, 7:21 pm

I read everything that was said, but I still need help with this. Let me
tell you what is happening, imagine a 7 page website and I have additional
pages that you can link to from one of the original 7 pages. One of the
links is to 2 seperate scanned images (articles), both on the same page. At
the top is a very small header (logo, company name) with no navigation bar.

When I go to web preview and hit print:

the first page is the header (logo and company name) and then nothing...big
white empty space, with the address and date of course at the bottom.

the second page prints out perfectly. I have it set up to have one article
on each page for freindly printing. But I did test it, and if I drag the
first article down a little, the first page still doesn't print but the image
gets cut off a little and prints the rest on the second page before the 2nd
article prints.

I also tired putting a text box above the first article, didn't do anything.
And, I know it is not the IMAGE, per say, cause I dragged it down a page and
it printed on page 2 & 3 just fine.

Thanks!

"David Bartosik" wrote:
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> So you are talking about printing a single image versus a page? I'd call that
> a design issue. Why does the image have to be that size? Why is it being
> printed in the first place? The proper way to handle this if indeed you must
> is that you compress the image in a zip file and upload that. You can then
> link to that zip file off a link put on a small version of the image on the
> web page (called a thumbnail). The visitor then downloads the zip and locally
> opens the image file. When they open the file locally it will open in their
> default image program which would provide for printing the image according to
> their printer abilities and the type and size of paper they specify.
>
> David Bartosik - [MSFT MVP]
> http://www.publishermvps.com
> http://www.davidbartosik.com
>
>
> "RoyL" wrote:
>

David Bartosik [MSFT MVP]

2005-08-05, 11:18 pm

Web preview is only using memory to generate a temporary page, I would not
use that for any testing other than viewing the display. You should publish
the web publication to your pc and then browse to the htm file and open it
in your browser and test printing using that physical htm file.

Printing a web page is like web design itself, it's not an exact science.
Tons of variables are involved. If you want to try and make it easier for
the user to print a web page and create a "friendly" "printable" page, then
you create a separate copy of the page. And you make that copy as plain as
possible, it should be text only, and if you have a logo then use a black
and white copy (preferably smaller) of it. This copy should be narrower then
the original to help prevent text be chopped off in the printing. Make the
text boxes only 700 pixels wide (Pub2003 has pixel measurements). Then
simply put a link from the original page to the "friendly" page. You may
want to have a link on that page that points back to the original page, but
nothing more, the printable page should not have a web menu on it.

An example can be seen at http://www.barvin.com - click an article link and
browse to the bottom of the article, there is a printable hyperlink, click
that and you get the copy of the original.

David Bartosik - [MSFT MVP]
http://www.publishermvps.com
http://www.davidbartosik.com

"Outlook 2003 email problems"
<Outlook2003emailproblems@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:585854C1-2732-4D29-9F33-CD31F263F3BB@microsoft.com...[color=darkred]
>I read everything that was said, but I still need help with this. Let me
> tell you what is happening, imagine a 7 page website and I have additional
> pages that you can link to from one of the original 7 pages. One of the
> links is to 2 seperate scanned images (articles), both on the same page.
> At
> the top is a very small header (logo, company name) with no navigation
> bar.
>
> When I go to web preview and hit print:
>
> the first page is the header (logo and company name) and then
> nothing...big
> white empty space, with the address and date of course at the bottom.
>
> the second page prints out perfectly. I have it set up to have one
> article
> on each page for freindly printing. But I did test it, and if I drag the
> first article down a little, the first page still doesn't print but the
> image
> gets cut off a little and prints the rest on the second page before the
> 2nd
> article prints.
>
> I also tired putting a text box above the first article, didn't do
> anything.
> And, I know it is not the IMAGE, per say, cause I dragged it down a page
> and
> it printed on page 2 & 3 just fine.
>
> Thanks!
>
>
>
> "David Bartosik" wrote:
>