Printing mulitple pages

Discussion in 'CSS' started by Cobnut, May 20, 2008.

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    Here's an odd one. Part of a site I've recently completed generates a page of graphs and charts. The page is constructed with page breaks using page-break-after:always and splits into 12 pages on printing. At least it does for me and some others. Crucially, our client is only seeing/printing the first page and Print Preview reports page 1 of 1, even though they can see the entire page (all graphs/divs) on the screen.

    For me it works in FF2 and IE7 perfectly and it does for several other people we've asked. It doesn't seem to be a specific CSS issue with page breaking as none of the known problems apply in this case and, besides, all the known problems would cause it to fail for us as well, e.g. the 'overflow' issue doesn't apply here as no overflows are involved.

    Our client is using FF2 - exactly the same version - and maintains that it doesn't work for him. I've tried using the page breaks in different forms (page-break-before, in divs, in ps, in brs) and for those for whom it works, all these methods work. But none work for the client.

    It's driving us mad. Can anyone suggest any peripheral reasons for this behaviour? What could cause a browser to display a complete page but not print it - given that it does work for a selection of users?

    Any ideas appreciated.

    Jon
     
    Cobnut, May 20, 2008 IP
  2. nicangeli

    nicangeli Peon

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    I really am no master at this, but have you considered / or are you using a print style sheet, media="print" etc.

    It would be pretty usefull if you could show me some code, I may have a look.
     
    nicangeli, May 21, 2008 IP