Printing from the Vaast website

craftech wrote on 1/31/2006, 8:10 AM

What is the secret to printing a tutorial from the Vaast website?

Using Internet Explorer I find nearly impossible because on the right side much of the sentences are cut off even when I reformat the page margins or choose "shrink to fit" from the Print options.

Using Firefox is better in terms of the text, but often the images from the ads on the left end up shifted to the right ON TOP OF the text.

John

Comments

DavidMcKnight wrote on 1/31/2006, 8:24 AM

You could always copy and paste the text into Word or some other editor and print from there.

craftech wrote on 1/31/2006, 8:29 AM

Thanks David,
That's what I ended up doing for the pages that had the images on top of them in Firefox. Kind of annoying, but it worked.

John

ztalk112 wrote on 1/31/2006, 8:33 AM

Unfortunately I have to agree . . . it's a pain.

I've tried adjusting my IE browser margins, but nothing seems to work. David's C & P workaround is the only thing that's worked for me in the past.

Spot|DSE wrote on 1/31/2006, 9:45 AM

FWIW, it's somewhat designed to be a pain. We keep finding our work showing up in various places, including magazines. (One actually had the balls to put someone else's name on one of my articles) We appreciate that folks like the tutorials, and we often debate the question of width. We want to support schools, but also want to thwart copyright violations where we can, and the easiest way to do it is to make sure the pages don't fit within a framed print.
We're all ears, but frankly, after what we saw earlier from a somewhat known Vegas user, we're just that much more gunshy about opening things up. Maybe we're too concerned, and seeing at least a few people here wanting to print...we're listening....
In fact, if you'd like to drop me a note about improving any aspect of our site, this is the time to do it, as we're in the process of revamping. Click my name above to send me a mail with any feedback.

Former user wrote on 1/31/2006, 9:50 AM

John,

Try setting the page orientation to "Landscape" in the file/page setup option in IE. This will usually accomodate most web pages. You will use more paper, but the entire page content should be there...

Jim