Sometimes, through poor coding or poor browser display, web pages are too wide for a screen let alone a sheet of paper. Is the prob with most web pages?
In the stylewriter 1200 print box for IE, for example, but not for NS it gives options: shrink pages to fit, crop wide pages, print wide pages. For pages that your dad might want to print perhaps he could try IE which might do the job automatically on his printer (meaning no need to set optimum size). IE also gives options not to print images, footers, headers which is useful. NS 4.. is a poor browser for these days. And NS 6 might be a bit heavy for the set up he has. The Mac browser iCab is terrific in its print options and is a browser that required little RAM and space as well as being very good looking (but it has a few limitations, especially in button interaction with banks and ebay etc) Quite often, folk just want the text from web pages. Simple selection of it and dragging to simpletext (or any word processing) page is quick and gives much better control of fonts and sizes and printing is always surer. Thing your dad might find handy to do. He can print as big as he wants then. David Elmo > Subject: Updated 8500 and CSW 4500 > From: Jason <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > OK, about a week ago (or so), I posted that I sent my father a > Stylewriter 4500 to use with his 8500/120 (OS 8.1, 80M RAM, 1.2 G hd). > > After getting the printer working, he tried to print a web page from > Netscape 4.79 (IIRC). It cropped the text to fit an 80 column printer. I > recommended that he scaled the page down a bit so it would fit the paper > in the printer. I suggested he try 90% and if it fit, try 95%, and if it > didn't try 85%, etc., until he found the biggest scaling that would show > the whole page width. > > The problem is that 90% doesn't seem to work with this printer. He says > that at 90%, everything comes up too small to see, though 87% seemed to > work fine. I'm thinking he just typed 9%, but he swears he tried it > several times, each with the same result. > > Is there a way to make a webpage that's too wide for a standard sheet of > paper fit on one without having to mess with the Page Setup software? Can > this be done within Netscape somehow? > > Thanks, > > J White -- PCI-PowerMacs is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Sonnet & PowerLogix Upgrades - start at $169 | & CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> PCI-PowerMacs list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/pci-powermacs.shtml> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive:<http://www.mail-archive.com/pci-powermacs%40mail.maclaunch.com/> Using a Mac? Free email & more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
