RE: [IUG] Printing weirdness from WebOPAC in IE

[Bob Duncan <duncanr at lafayette dot edu>]

At 11:25 AM 03/22/2006 -0800, Bob Rasmussen wrote:
> I have now tried the same situation (HP 8150 PCL driver) but with version
> 7 of IE (which is in beta). The problem has gone away.
>
> Someone could work with a saved HTML source and change minor things (such
> as removing the strong tag) to see if they could make that problem go
> away. I can't do that now because the laptop I have has IE 7 on it, where
> there is no problem.


My contribution to the cause...

-  I cannot duplicate the problem when printing pages generated by our system.

-  I can duplicate Anne's problem from two different WinXP PCs (using IE6), 
but only when printing to an HP LJ1200;  when I print to a 4100 or 4300, 
the problem does not exist.

-  Removing the strong tagset does not eradicate the problem;  I get an 
extra letter off to the left when printing:

        Hea     rings

instead of the bolded

        He     arings

-  When I print a local copy of the page (without a style sheet) the 
problem does NOT exist.

-  When I edit the local copy of the page to use the style sheet on BU's 
site, the problem exists as if being printed from BU's server.

So there's something in the style sheet which IE doesn't seem to like, but 
only when using certain printer drivers.  Editing a local copy of the style 
sheet revealed that the offending piece is the "padding-right: 2em;" 
declaration in the rule for .bibInfoLabel.  When I remove this from the 
style sheet, the printing problem disappears.  (YMMV)

I have no idea precisely why.

Bob Duncan



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