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#127 printing problems

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2005-06-21
2005-05-30
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when requesting a print of a survey (completed, still
in edit mode) as a screen dump through Firefox, often
get only part of the survey printing

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  • Robsteranium

    Robsteranium - 2005-06-21

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    I'm also experiencing this problem under a number of
    stylesheets. In particular the table containing the
    questions is invisible.

    Is the solution part of the CSS coding or is there often a
    problem printing these html elements?

     
  • Matthew Gregg

    Matthew Gregg - 2005-06-21

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    We need a print media CSS for surveys for this to work well.
    Shouldn't be hard to come up with, if anyone is interested
    in doing it.

     
  • Matthew Gregg

    Matthew Gregg - 2005-06-21
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  • Robsteranium

    Robsteranium - 2005-06-21

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    I've now tested this on a number of browsers: firefox, ie,
    camino, mozilla. I've also tried messing with word & pdfs
    to no avail.

    Given that printing of the example page (which explains the
    css template) is also problematic and that lots of the css
    resources on the web suggest that css doesn't handle tables
    I'm led to believe that the solution to this problem
    involves fundamental changes to phpesp formatting.
    Specifically, based on my rudimentary understanding of css,
    we will need to replace the table-structure with a
    div-structure.

    There is a great deal of discussion on this online and no
    obvious answer. Perhaps the css model should be leapfrogged
    in favour of xforms & xslt?

     
  • Matthew Gregg

    Matthew Gregg - 2005-06-21

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    Removing tables from survey layout is on the roadmap. I
    don't think Xforms(not supported anywhere yet) nor the
    overhead of XLT is needed. A simple print-media CSS
    should be fine. Can someone send a link to one of the
    surveys that fails to render/print?

     

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