How do I print my livejournal?

[koganbot]

When I try to print my livejournal on paper I lose about six lines at the changeover from one page to the next. Do you know what I can do about this? I'm on Windows XP, and Internet Explorer is my browser, if that has anything to do with it. (And no, I'm not going to change my browser to do this. Might change it sometimes for other reasons, but not just to see if I can get my livejournal pages to print better.)

Livejournal's help doesn't seem to have anything to say on the subject.

Comments

[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

i get this on one of the office printers but not the other (though generally i'm using firefox): i think it's probably a printer setting issue of some sort (such as A4 vs US letter)
a: can you print pages out at 90% size? (probably in "page set-up")
b: does it make a difference if you put headings or the like on the pager foot (eg the url) -- this is definitely a printer setting in firefox
c: it might be worth experimenting on other browsers

[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

c: oops, sorry, i somehow overlooked your declaration you weren't going to change browsers just for this -- i switch between safari and firefox all the time, because they fall over for different reasons)

[cis.livejournal.com]

my method for printing off t'internet is usually cut-and-paste-into-word-or-similar.

addendum to dubdobdee's (a), which is probably your best bet: check how it looks in 'print preview' first, which will either be an option on the 'file' menu or will be something you can access after clicking on 'print...'. If what your printout looks like does not match up to your print preview you probably have to adjust the margins or check what size of paper it thinks it's printing on, which should be in 'page setup' but sometimes can also be done from 'print preview'.

[koganbot]

What it's doing is pushing the top margin down an inch so that the corresponding inch gets cut off at the bottom, and I lose the same amount of text whether I play with the margins or print at a smaller percentage - it just drops a corresponding amount below the new top margin, with the same cut-off at the bottom. This shows up on print preview, too, so I doubt that the problem is in the printer.

[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

well if it's not the page set-up and it's not the printer out of true then probably the only thing left is the relationship between the browser and the printer (there may just be a buggy incompatability)

a: what happens with another printer same browser?
a: what happens with another browser same printer?

[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

er, "b:" i mean

[koganbot]

a. Is the only printer I have
b. Right now I only have one browser. Do browsers generally consist of many megabytes? I am running out of room on my hard drive.

P.S. I generally don't print a lot off the Web, but I just checked someone's Wordpress blog and the printing was fine, so whatever my problem is, it doesn't apply to all sites I visit. What seems to happen is that the up-top part (koganbot Account | Help | Logout Post | Messages | Friends Page | Invite | Mobile Home Journal Profile Edit Profile Friends Page Manage Friends Communities ScrapBook Explore LJ) prints fine on the first page but pushes everything down, if you know what I mean, so text gets pushed off the bottom of the page and at the top of the next page is blank space that would normally be the bottom margin of the first page and the top margin of the second.

[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

well if it doesn't affect other sites, it must be something to do with the LJ web architecture (and setting? though i can't see why this would be a setting anyone would want) as it interacts with the browser as this interacts with the printer, which is why i would try other printers (eg at the library?) and other browsers -- like i say, i get this at work on one printer but not on the other, using all the same settings on the computer

i don't think browsers take up a huge amount of memory just as applications but i can't work out how to find details of size -- you'd see as you were downloading them of course, the download bar tells you how is left to -- firefox is badly constructed with eg youtube, and seems to use up loads more memory than it needs to

opera i seem to recall was quite small (but that was many versions ago): maybe the new google chrome browser is worth trying?

yikes

[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

note to self: don't write posts on matters technical after midnight! apologies for incomprehensibility

i: browsers take up two sorts of memory, the amount when they're just sitting there, and the amount they need when they're operating -- the first you can tell as you're downloading them; the second not so much -- i like firefox for lots of reasons BUT it is terrible with youtube and silts up rather quickly over time, so i'd avoid that if memory is an issue (i stopped using safari bcz it would show FT, tho i think that's been sorted; IE is just awful on the various macs i use; opera i remember way-back liking a lot for a while, quick and not memorious, tho i think also a bit flimsy -- it would just quit for no reason sometimes; why not try google chrome?

ii: if this glitch doesn't occur with other websites then it's an artefact of LJ's architecture as it interacts with (a) yr browser and (b) yr browser's interaction with yr printer --- it seems unlikely it's a default settings preference, at any point, as who would prefer it? (i mean you can set your margins so that you print only material entirely OFF the page, but this would never be a default preference)

gah!

[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

i stopped using safari bcz it WOULDN'T show FT

(sorry i'm hurrying off to visit my dad today, till sunday, hence stupid hurriedness: not sure if i'll have web access, will have to wireless piggyback illegally off neighbour's broadband to get it)

[jauntyalan.livejournal.com]

does changing the journal's theme change it?

[koganbot]

I do not even know the meaning of the word "theme" in a livejournal context. I am an unpaid S1 account, if that matters.

[koganbot]

Ah, I see, I click on "Journal" and it invites me to switch to S2 and then I can change themes (whatever themes are).

Your Luddite Friend,

Frank