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Windows Forum / Internet Explorer / General Topics / May 2008tiny tiny print
Hello, My husband and I are having the same problem on two different computers with two different printers. When ever we print a web page from I.E.7 the text comes out really really small. So small that it is almost unreadable. We have tried changing the text size in different places with no luck. Is there something we are doing wrong or need to do? Please advise. Thank you. Check the Page Setup tab on your printer (if you have one). You may have "fit to page" selected and it is condensing the size to fit on one page. > Hello, > My husband and I are having the same problem on two different computers [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > Please advise. > Thank you. OK what I did was go to "Print Preview" and it was set at "Shrink to Fit" by default. Printing the web page that way was way too tiny. I clicked on the down menu and selected "100%" and that enlarged to print size to readable but then it cut off some of the text! Still a problem. > Check the Page Setup tab on your printer (if you have one). You may have > "fit to page" selected and it is condensing the size to fit on one page. [quoted text clipped - 7 lines] >> Please advise. >> Thank you. IE7 is set up to automatically shrink the page contents to fit onto a page (at least left and right) when printing. What you need to do is go to print preview (one of the options at the arrow to the right of the print button). On the print preview page, where it says "shrink to fit," click the arrow to the right. That will open a list of percentages. If you choose 100%, you'll print the page as it appeared on-screen. Of course, you can change to any other percentage that suits you. It's a nice feature, since it keeps words from being cut off on the sides--but most of the time I prefer 100%. What I'd like to know is whether there's any way to change the default on the print preview page to something other than shrink to fit. Jo-Anne > Hello, > My husband and I are having the same problem on two different computers [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > Please advise. > Thank you. OK I tried that but now it's cutting off the text on the sides. > IE7 is set up to automatically shrink the page contents to fit onto a page > (at least left and right) when printing. What you need to do is go to [quoted text clipped - 19 lines] >> Please advise. >> Thank you. Try something lower than 100%, or change your margins (I don't know what the default margins are, but I've changed mine to .25"; this is done in Page Setup, which is in the same list as Print Preview), or highlight (select) what you want to print and then go to Print Preview and click on the arrow to the right of "As laid out on screen." That will bring up "As selected on screen." Then decide if you want to shrink to fit (with less text, that might be readable) or choose a percentage. Jo-Anne > OK I tried that but now it's cutting off the text on the sides. > [quoted text clipped - 21 lines] >>> Please advise. >>> Thank you. Hi again Jo-Anne. I changed the margins and tried both the "As laid out on screen" and used different percentages, all cutting off by different degrees. So next I tried just turning the page to landscape which then worked. I guess that is the best/only solution at this time. Thanks for your replies. > Try something lower than 100%, or change your margins (I don't know what > the default margins are, but I've changed mine to .25"; this is done in [quoted text clipped - 31 lines] >>>> Please advise. >>>> Thank you. If you selected text to print, you'd choose "As selected on screen." The particular webpage must be crammed full horizontally, or you wouldn't need to print landscape. I've had to do that on rare occasions too, though. Jo-Anne > Hi again Jo-Anne. > I changed the margins and tried both the "As laid out on screen" and used [quoted text clipped - 40 lines] >>>>> Please advise. >>>>> Thank you. Yes, I think that is the problem. The page I am trying to print is crammed full of text from right edge to left. Thanks for all your replies. At least I now know what to do for other problematic pages. thanks again. > If you selected text to print, you'd choose "As selected on screen." The > particular webpage must be crammed full horizontally, or you wouldn't need [quoted text clipped - 46 lines] >>>>>> Please advise. >>>>>> Thank you. [Where did you learn all of this, Jo-Anne? <wink> Thanks for helping out! Stick around.] > If you selected text to print, you'd choose "As selected on screen." The > particular webpage must be crammed full horizontally, or you wouldn't need > to print landscape. I've had to do that on rare occasions too, though. <snip> Will do! It's mostly what I learned here, of course. So much still to learn, though. (Haven't responded yet to your latest OE message, but I printed off all the Inside OE material last night and will start going through it tonight.) Jo-Anne > [Where did you learn all of this, Jo-Anne? <wink> Thanks for helping out! > Stick around.] [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] >> to print landscape. I've had to do that on rare occasions too, though. > <snip> |
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