Printing images from web

I am having trouble creating web pages that will consistently print all the images on a page. I have looked at the code and compared it to pages that work correctly and can see no difference. I work for an organization that uses Netscape 4.79 as the default browser so must address the problem at this level.

This may not even be a Netscape problem since it happens in I.E. but not as severely. Some of the images on the page will print, but not all of them. Different images may print each time the page is printed. The files are not huge and the page is not loaded with graphics; just a gif and a jpg in the header and 5 gifs for navigation buttons.

Anybody have any ideas?

 

Hi Joan Tomek
Welcome to the boards! Can you post us a link...or the code?
Any chance that the pages haven't been properly uploaded?
*edit*
When you upload your page...do you keep your graphics in their own seperate images folder?

Daizy

 

The images are kept in a separate folder. We ftp the files to the server. Here is a link to the site: http://www.masc.noaa.gov/masc/masc.htm

Thanks!

 

Joan,

Sorry directly to your question. It is a lot more complicated in printing.

firstly, Netscape 4.xx does NOT print well with CSS elements. (I don't see you used any, which is good.)

secondly, the page is a bit too wide for the printer...
you have

Code:

<table border= "0" width= "800" height= "600 ">

thirdly, elements inside table may appear different when printing.

The workaround methods are:

• try to print in Landscape mode.
  
• try to create a "printer friendly" version of the page, where you will have to get rid of unwanted column, and try not to use TABLE at all.

 

Thank you, Antony. You are correct, there is no CSS code. The main problem that I am trying to address is why some images print and others don't, even though some of the images are almost identical images (buttons) with almost identical code and an identical file structure.

I just got in to my office and read your post. I will now try printing the page in landscape mode to see if the table width is the problem.

Appreciate the help.

 

P.S. to last post
I just printed the home page of our site in landscape, which did not make any difference. The first image, a simple .gif, did not print correctly. Just small portion of the image shows and the alt tag. The second image, a .jpg printed correctly but with half the alt tag showing. The next two .gifs printed correctly, and the next four similar .gifs (a row of 6 buttons, did not print and no alt tags printed. They have identical file structure. Several small .gifs toward the end of the page printed, but not correctly.

 

Can you tell me the exact page you want to print? I can test it and check the code for you. If it is not private.

(The exact URL will do).

 

Thanks. The url for the home page of our site is
http://www.masc.noaa.gov/, but if you want to look at a page with musch less code but the same graphics, go to http://www.masc.noaa.gov/masc/fmd/training.html

We have the same printing problems throughout the site. Appreciate the help.

 

Joan,

I checked the less complicated page you gave, and I have no problem as you mentioned. I printed it in both Netscape 7.0 and 4.79.

Now, for NS 4.79, there were page cuts, which as what I said earlier, it is due to the fix size of the table.

Is the page static? or dynamically generally from server each time?
Are you using the server with FrontPage extension enabled?

I checked the code, I don't have much clue. But there are something you can try...

* change the <meta http-equiv= "Content-Type" content= "text/html; charset=windows-1252 "> to <meta http-equiv= "Content-Type" content= "text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 ">

* change all image's location from something like "../../gifs/hidden.gif" to "/gifs/hidden.gif "

 

The page is static not generated.
Changing the meta tag had no effect.

I think you may have nailed the problem when you said to change the images from ../../gifs/image.gif to /gif/image.gif. I tried that on the "less complicated" page and now it prints perfectly. http://www.masc.noaa.gov/masc/fmd/training.html


I think the problem probably stems from the fact that this site was created initially mostly in Frontpage (not a well-considered decision) but is running from a Unix server using Apache. I don't think there is a Frontpage extension. Frontpage uses the ../../ for images which is how they got into the code. The annoying thing (one of many) is that when you use /gif/image.gif for the image location, it is broken in Frontpage's design page window.

We will be migrating away from Frontpage to Dreamweaver and I hope that will help correct the problems. In the meantime I'll be going through and correcting the images on pages likely to be printed.

Thanks very much for your help.

 

Glad it works.

 

Alas, while it solved the problem for me, using my PC and my printer, some of my coworkers still are having problems. It may be something to do with how their printers or PCs are configured, but we can't figure out what it is. This is a large federal government office and things are fairly well standardized since the same techs install everyone's computers.

I'm still suspicious of the Frontpage/Unix/Apache combination. I think we just need to get away from Frontpage. What I've done with Dreamweaver so far indicates that it writes much cleaner code.

thanks again for your help.