Splitting image at page break disappears when printing.

[Les Juby]

I'm trying to print a simple catalogue of products but where an image
straddles a page break, the image either disappears completely or else
the first half prints at the bottom of the page but the second half
does not print at the top of the following page.? Huh.?

The single image for each record is contained inside of a table with a
simple construct. No rowspans just an ordinary <td> placement.

The output can be viewed at:

http://www.seaport.co.za/cat7.asp

Any suggestions please.....?

thanks

.les.
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[Mark Tranchant]

Les Juby wrote:

Any suggestions please.....?

Yeah - use PDF for publishing stuff to be printed. Browsers' support for
printing is poor, and HTML isn't designed for it. Possibly try Opera, as
that's alleged to have relatively good printing functionality.

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[Philipp Lenssen]

Mark Tranchant wrote:

Les Juby wrote:

Any suggestions please.....?

Yeah - use PDF for publishing stuff to be printed. Browsers' support
for printing is poor, and HTML isn't designed for it. Possibly try
Opera, as that's alleged to have relatively good printing
functionality.

HTML is very muchd designed for printing (and display on screen, and
text-to-speech, and so on). It may not look terribly fixed, or terribly
nice (for that, CSS is just not advanced enough, especially in its
implementation) but it can get the job done well.

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[Les Juby]

On Thu, 30 Sep 2004 16:32:09 +0100, Mark Tranchant
<ma**@tranchant.plus.com> wrote:

Les Juby wrote:

Any suggestions please.....?

Yeah - use PDF for publishing stuff to be printed. Browsers' support for
printing is poor, and HTML isn't designed for it. Possibly try Opera, as
that's alleged to have relatively good printing functionality.

Absolutely. * BUT*, to publish to PDF you have to print to the PDF
driver from the HTML and you're back at the same problem. Or have I
got it wrong somewhere...?

I think this can be done with @media: page CSS-2 commands..?
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Les Juby le*****@anti-spam.iafrica.com
Webpro Internet - - - Prosoft Microsystems
Durban, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa
P.O.Box 35243, Northway 4065, South Africa
Tel: [phone] Fax: [phone]
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[Les Juby]

On 30 Sep 2004 15:40:28 GMT, "Philipp Lenssen" <in**@outer-court.com>
wrote:

Mark Tranchant wrote:

Les Juby wrote:

> Any suggestions please.....?

Yeah - use PDF for publishing stuff to be printed. Browsers' support
for printing is poor, and HTML isn't designed for it. Possibly try
Opera, as that's alleged to have relatively good printing
functionality.

HTML is very muchd designed for printing (and display on screen, and
text-to-speech, and so on). It may not look terribly fixed, or terribly
nice (for that, CSS is just not advanced enough, especially in its
implementation) but it can get the job done well.

Uuuuh... OK. I think it's CSS-2 that's needed. @media:page or
something which will pagebreak if the table (which contains the image)
is too big. Any examples anywhere.?
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Les Juby le*****@anti-spam.iafrica.com
Webpro Internet - - - Prosoft Microsystems
Durban, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa
P.O.Box 35243, Northway 4065, South Africa
Tel: [phone] Fax: [phone]
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[Lauri Raittila]

In article <41*************@news.uunet.co.za>, we****@webpro.co.za
says...

On Thu, 30 Sep 2004 16:32:09 +0100, Mark Tranchant
<ma**@tranchant.plus.com> wrote:

Les Juby wrote:

Any suggestions please.....?
Yeah - use PDF for publishing stuff to be printed. Browsers' support for
printing is poor, and HTML isn't designed for it. Possibly try Opera, as
that's alleged to have relatively good printing functionality.

Yes.
Absolutely. * BUT*, to publish to PDF you have to print to the PDF
driver from the HTML and you're back at the same problem. Or have I
got it wrong somewhere...?
Then the problem will be solved already when someone else tries to print
your catalog.
I think this can be done with @media: page CSS-2 commands..?

Surely. If they happen to work.

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Lauri Raittila <http://www.iki.fi/lr> <http://www.iki.fi/zwak/fonts>

[L�ʻie Techie]

On Fri, 01 Oct 2004 06:45:17 +0000, Les Juby wrote:

Uuuuh... OK. I think it's CSS-2 that's needed. @media:page or something
which will pagebreak if the table (which contains the image) is too big.
Any examples anywhere.?

This is the first link I got from googling css +"page-break"

http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-CSS2/page.html

HTH,
La'ie Techie