[zeromq-dev] Printing web pages

[gonzalo diethelm]

Introduction: I print documents so I can escape the office and quietly
read them by a cup of coffee. If you are not interested in printing on
paper, you can just skip this thread.


I have used http://www.zeromq.org/docs:contributing to do some
experiments related to printing. None of this is new (I have reported it
before), but I would love to understand why it happens; maybe I can
learn how to scratch my own itch. I am running Firefox 3.6.10 on Windows
XP SP3 (both are English versions); all tests are not done via physical
printing, but with the Print Preview button.

If I try to simply print the page, I always get a four page document:

1. Just the title "Contributing to 0MQ" on top of the page.
2. Blank.
3. Table of contents and the beginning of the actual document.
4. Footer page with menu ("Help | Terms of Service | Privacy...") and
"Powered by Wikidot.com".

If I click on the "Print" link (in red, next to "Edit this page |
Tags"), a new browser window opens with the whole page seemingly
formatted for printing. If I try to print this page, I always get a
three page document:

1. Same as #1 above.
2. Same as #3 above.
3. Blank.

Final plea: even if there is no way to fix this, or no time to do it, I
would really appreciate if someone could explain to me why a seemingly
well formatted HTML page would print like this. I have seen this
typically happening on blog sites, where I find that when I try to print
an interesting article, I only get the first page of content. Is this
related to CSS somehow? Is this done on purpose? Why? It really
infuriates me. Here is an example illustrating what I am saying:

http://adwordsapi.blogspot.com/2010/10/discover-v201008-servicedaccounts
ervice.html


Thanks for your patience and understanding... :-)

-- 
Gonzalo Diethelm