Re: [IUG] Printing in IE with WebPac Pro

["Iglesias, Edward G. (Library)" <iglesiasedg at mail dot ccsu dot edu>]

Thanks for your help on this.  It appears many have ditched print view.
In Firefox the printing happens correctly.  In IE6.x (which is what most
of our users come in on) the display does not match the print or print
preview.

Edward Iglesias 
Systems Librarian 
Central Connecticut State University 
860.832.2082 


> -----Original Message-----
> From: innopac-bounces at innopacusers dot org [mailto:innopac-
> bounces at innopacusers dot org] On Behalf Of David Jones
> Sent: Tuesday, September 04, 2007 10:25 PM
> To: IUG INNOPAC List
> Subject: Re: [IUG] Printing in IE with WebPac Pro
> 
> >>> On Tue, Sep 4, 2007 at  7:32 AM, "Iglesias, Edward G. (Library)"
> <iglesiasedg at mail dot ccsu dot edu> wrote:
> > Did anyone come up with a solution for this.  I've tried adding
stuff
> to
> > styles.css including the infamous display:none element to no avail.
> 
> Your staging port is blocked, so I don't know if your live
> configuration matches, but you do have this conditional in the header
> on your live port:
> 
> <!--[if lte IE 8]><link rel="stylesheet" media="all" type="text/css"
> href="/screens/ie_styles.css" /><![endif]-->
> 
> and the '@media print' block in it is properly formatting the
printouts
> in IE7. The printout looks exactly the same whether you are using the
> 'Print Version' or 'Web View' in IE. In Firefox, it looks different
> because there are no @media rules in either ProStyles.css or
> styles.css, so Firefox is just printing what's in the browser window
at
> the time.
> 
> Do you have something different on your staging server?
> 
> Personally, I would just ditch the 'Print Version/Web View" Javascript
> stuff and just use CSS to control the print formatting for all
> browsers.
> 
> HTH,
> David
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
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