Incorrect Print Pagination

[jwatson]

Hi Scott!

We're currently running into a problem when printing full-text articles from one of the online journals our library has a subscription to. It's just a straight HTML page with a frame across the top with their logo and navigational links. The remaining 4/5 of the page displays the article. In the print preview, the navigational frame is displayed as page 1 (just that frame is printed on page 1) followed by the rest of the article (yielding a document the length of the article plus one page for the navigational frame). The pagination at this point is fine. When you proceed to print, things start going wrong. For some inexplicable reason, the print dialog forgets that page 1 contains the navigational frame.

So, let's say the document is 10 pages long. Print preview says the document is 11 pages long and displays the navigational frame as page 1. If you proceed to print and specify the range 2-11 to avoid printing the frame, what will actually print is the equivalentt of pages 3-11 in the print preview (it seems to act as if the first page containing the frame does not exist).

In print preview, we have the "All frames individually" option set and have tested this in both version 2.06 and 2.07. Any ideas on what's going on here?

-Joel

[Scott]

PWB simply passes the print request to Internet Explorer including the print preview. What happens when you print with Internet Explorer on the same computer?

--Scott

[spragers]

Hi,

I wonder if that, once you select a page range, IE is only able to apply it to a particular frame?

- Ben

[GregP]

Just as a side note.

The print templates that Scott has added to PWB can control all of this behaviour in the way you want. You just have to code the template then tell PWB to use it instead of the default IE template.

Greg