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  1. #1
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    Default How to make a web page printer friendly?

    I have this page made in Xara, which is 950px wide and 2500+px tall.
    It centers when the window is wider than 950px.
    The problem is that when printing this page, from Opera, Chrome or whatever browser I use, it does not print well unless the windows width is scaled so that the page fits exactly inside it. Otherwise a wide left margin is added, with the same width as the margin on screen, and the right side may be clipped.
    I would really like this to print left-aligned, with no margin at all, except for a narrow printer/paper margin.
    How can I achieve that in Xara (Designer Pro X11)?

    And how could I create a web page that is left aligned - and not centered automatically?

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    Default Re: How to make a web page printer friendly?

    Send us a link to the page.

    I use http://www.printfriendly.com/ for my personal use as a Google extension.
    I have infinite scroll on a WordPress blog and it separates even this into clean well-presented, pagefuls of the website.

    There is the ability to embed a button on your Xara page: http://www.printfriendly.com/button.

    Acorn
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    Default Re: How to make a web page printer friendly?

    Thanks for the tip :-) It didn't make a very "pretty" solution though..
    Xara uses absoulute positioning a lot, which is great for WYSIWYG, bot not so much for (reformatting) printing.

    So far I just made a pdf version that can be viewed/printed/downloaded.
    The URL is: http://lindve.no

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    Default Re: How to make a web page printer friendly?

    That would be the way I'd go, you know that it will print correctly from the pdf. Printing from a browser window is going to create to many unknowns that you can't control.
    Egg

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