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5/29/2007 9:17 AM
 

Here's the problem reported. The words in blue are not mine. However, I did verify that what is described is what is happening. I looked at the source as sent to the browser, and there's nothing there that would indicate any issues ... the print page break just happens in the middle of continued table layout that printed on the first page with no issues.

This is still a DNN 3.1.1 install. I'll upgrade only pieces of it to 4.5.n in the near future as they are migrating most of our website to OmniUpdate.

I don't entirely appreciate way this has been dubbed "the DNN printing bug" but what you gonna do?

But ... is it a DNN printing bug? I don't quite see how ... at this stage, it's just html rendered by a browser ... how come it doesn't print properly?

Here are the specifics of the DNN printing bug:

Issue:
When users print a long web page from the academic core, only the first page appears, and the subsequent pages print without any content, but do include headers and footers and pagination. It affects Windows XP in Firefox and IE6. This printing problem reaches across the entire Academic core sub site on DNN. The problem does not affect Mac users.

Scope of affected users:
The printing problem affects people who print out 2+ pages long DNN pages

  1. Research into the page templates in DNN to locate the cause of the bug. This path may not be fast or trivial to resolve it successfully.
  2. The forthcoming DNN 4.5 upgrade may kill the printing bug. I am only speculating on this.
  3. The DNN site is slated to be replaced by standard .asp pages which should solve the page printing issues at almost 100% certainty -- all other long .asp pages in the site do print correctly.


pmgerholdt
 
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5/29/2007 8:34 PM
 

I am not aware of a DNN printing bug in previous versions. I remember that IE6 had a number of printing issues, other issues can be related to the skin. I suggest to try printing with IE7, use TemplatePrint from dnnjungle.vmasanas.net and check the skin applied.


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Sebastian Leupold

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5/29/2007 9:12 PM
 

Thanks ... I was thinking it might be a skin issue; and I had run across reference to TemplatePrint in the help module forum, and in fact downloaded it a few hours ago, though I'm not yet sure just what it does. Will check it out.


pmgerholdt
 
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5/29/2007 11:58 PM
 

The issue may be ebing caused by the fact that the standard DNN print does not pass querystring parameters to the print page.  This is the reason my Help module doesnt print.  By using Vincenc's TemplatePrint you can pass querystring params so it should fix your issue.


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