Using Weblogs @ ASP .NET and begin friendly to the printer...

Wow, I got an email from a user (thanks for the heads up), that my posts couldn't be printed (I actually said something worthy of black letters on paper).  Turns out most of the *styles* associated with .Text simply won't print out on a normal printer.  Why?  I'm not sure. 

But I found that the cooler skins like Lighty with the neato graphics doesn't print at all.  You simply don't get any message body, but you get to see the entire menu on the left hand side.  Very strange.  Any of the skins that has a right hand side border (marvin3) prints message bodies within about a 2 inch area of the center of the paper.  Took a LOT of paper to print even a short message.

I wound up using the Marvin2 base style because it prints using a wide right portion of the paper for the message body and actually allows the message body text to present itself on a b/w printer.  So a note to all, be nice to the printer, until .Text maybe gets better styles.  Or take the personal time to write your own.

Published Tuesday, January 20, 2004 11:31 AM by Justin Rogers
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Tuesday, January 20, 2004 4:18 PM by DavidM

# re: Using Weblogs @ ASP .NET and begin friendly to the printer...

There is another problem - which I have flagged a number of times - if I view the weblogs homepage on my 1024 x 768 laptop - the navbar on the left covers half the posts - which is complete pants
Tuesday, January 20, 2004 4:39 PM by David Cumps

# re: Using Weblogs @ ASP .NET and begin friendly to the printer...

I have the same thing with the layout where a navbar is on the right, and it covers half of the text as well (i believe it was on a .Text site as well)
Wednesday, January 21, 2004 2:18 AM by Vance

# re: Using Weblogs @ ASP .NET and begin friendly to the printer...

That's one of the drawbacks to using div tags and css for positioning. Sure it makes it easier to completely change the look just by changing the stylesheet, but it tends to be somewhat quirky. Especially if you shrink the browser window and watch how things start overlapping.
Wednesday, August 17, 2011 6:47 AM by lucio

# re: Using Weblogs @ ASP .NET and begin friendly to the printer...

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Friday, August 26, 2011 12:20 PM by hello1

# re: Using Weblogs @ ASP .NET and begin friendly to the printer...

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