# Problem printing out a web page.

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/problem-printing-out-a-web-page/216851>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [December 4, 2003, 2:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/problem-printing-out-a-web-page/216851 "2003-12-04T02:46:22Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 7\
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**Author:** ![Nobody](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/94ad74/32.png) [@Nobody](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nobody)\
**Post date:** [December 4, 2003, 2:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/problem-printing-out-a-web-page/216851/1 "2003-12-04T02:46:22Z")

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I tried printing out pages from this web site  
[http://www.gamedev.net/reference/articles/article872.asp](http://www.gamedev.net/reference/articles/article872.asp)  
to study ray casting (yes, I’ve looked at the very popular tutorial by F. Permadi but have a hard time turning that into actual code).

Anyway, in trying to print out the pages, some letters get cropped off. I tried resizing the text and shrinking the left and right margins, I use print preview and still, what I get is something that won’t print out completely. I tired both Avant Browser (which uses the IE engine) and Mozilla Firebird, I can’t fit the whole thing using either browser.

So is there anyone here who knows how to solve this problem? I’m sure that there has to be a solution, but I’m not finding it.

Thanks.

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**Author:** ![Nobody](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/94ad74/32.png) [@Nobody](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nobody)\
**Post date:** [December 4, 2003, 2:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/problem-printing-out-a-web-page/216851/2 "2003-12-04T02:51:59Z")

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I guess I should have said that if the text is longer than the page, instead of wrapping around, the extra text is just not printed.

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**Author:** ![CarlaH1210](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ee59a6/32.png) [@CarlaH1210](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CarlaH1210)\
**Post date:** [December 4, 2003, 3:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/problem-printing-out-a-web-page/216851/3 "2003-12-04T03:03:41Z")

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Start at the top of the page, click and highlight all of the text you wish to print out. Copy the text (Ctrl V or right click/copy). Open Word Pad or Note Pad and paste the text there and print the Word Pad document as opposed to trying to print directly from the web page.

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**Author:** ![lexi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lexi/32/6806_2.png) [@lexi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lexi)\
**Post date:** [December 4, 2003, 3:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/problem-printing-out-a-web-page/216851/4 "2003-12-04T03:10:43Z")

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Also if you are in IE you could try going to File \>\> Page setup

And then set your magines to 0.25 for left, top, right, bottom and left.

Try googling: [http://www.google.ca/search?hl=en&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&safe=off&q=page+margin+printer+problem+IE+cut+off+right&btnG=Google+Search&meta=](http://www.google.ca/search?hl=en&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&safe=off&q=page+margin+printer+problem+IE+cut+off+right&btnG=Google+Search&meta=)

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**Author:** ![aahala](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a88e4f/32.png) [@aahala](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aahala)\
**Post date:** [December 4, 2003, 4:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/problem-printing-out-a-web-page/216851/5 "2003-12-04T04:40:13Z")

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Change the print origination from portrait to landscape.

In IE6, that’s file/print/properties/features/landscape button etc.

If that doesn’t work for you and you know html, then save the page coding as a text file with html extension, place the entire coding within a table less than 100%, resave and view as your own webpage.

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**Author:** ![Nobody](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/94ad74/32.png) [@Nobody](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nobody)\
**Post date:** [December 4, 2003, 5:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/problem-printing-out-a-web-page/216851/6 "2003-12-04T05:29:20Z")

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First, thank you everybody for your help, I’ll try aahala’s suggestion first, and if that doesn’t work, then I’ll just go with CarlaH1210’s advice.

I tried to avoid landscape because then the page prints out the long way probably making for more pages, but I’ll give it a try anyway.

And also lexi, I did try reducing the left and right margins, but I doubt that the top and bottom would help any, but thanks anyway.

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**Author:** ![Nanoda](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/ce73a5/32.png) [@Nanoda](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nanoda)\
**Post date:** [December 4, 2003, 5:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/problem-printing-out-a-web-page/216851/7 "2003-12-04T05:50:21Z")

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Save the html and:

1. Delete the

```auto

marginwidth="0" marginheight="0" leftmargin="0" topmargin="0"

```

bit in the \<body\> tag

1. Get rid of the big table the main text is in.

Print-Preview then shows a proper page in Mozilla 1.5