Twenty Ten not printing properly
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I have had users complaining about printing from pages such as http://leweshistory.org.uk/projects/the-lewes-street-stories-initiative/chapel-hill/introduction/
You claim that “Twenty Ten includes special styles for printing, so you’ll get printed copies that are just as easy to read as the original.”
Using Firefox, Internet Explorer, and Chrome, I find that the print-out moves my images and text around so what prints is not what I see displayed. This is particularly where I have two images side by side, one aligned Right and the other Left. I don’t normally risk doing this, but found your instructions on how to do this (or on your forum), so assumed it would be OK. However, problems occur elsewhere as well: on Firefox, I get images printed half on one page and the rest on the next page. Surely this should not happen? Also, text aligned to the right and placed under an image on the screen is now printed to the left of the image. Why?
With Chrome, I get gaps, images randomly moved together and misaligned.
Should this be happening with Twenty Ten?
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Hello there! I don’t see a Print sharing button installed on the link you’ve provided me. Could you please give that a try and see if your readers are able to print your content with that button?
To install a Print button, click Settings → Sharing. Scroll down to Available Services. Find the Print button and drag it into the Enable Services section. Then Save your changes.
You can test the functionality by going back to your Introduction, scrolling to the bottom, and using the Print button.
When I tested this on your site, prints created on Chrome, Firefox, and Safari all looked similar. They only had slight differences that were reflective of the default print settings of each browser.
Let me know how this works out for you. Many thanks!
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Thank you for your response, thatrobyn. I installed the Print button (somehow never seen it under Share!), and used that to print out 4 pages of http://leweshistory.org.uk/projects/the-lewes-street-stories-initiative/chapel-hill/introduction/
Sadly it makes no difference at all – the result is exactly like if I use File/print and “shrink to fit”. This was on Firefox.
Using the Print button also made no difference at all when using Chrome.
Should printing be better than this with twenty ten?
My readers are generally older, and more likely to want to print pages out. They will also probably be using default browser settings.
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Hi again!
Technically, because this is a website that uses different formatting than print-publishing, it’s not going to be magazine-perfect. However, it should be easy to read for your visitors.
I have uploaded three PDF documents to your Media Library. Please take a look. This is how your site prints from my three different browsers. While slightly different due to browser settings, they all appear similar. I have not adjusted anything from the default settings, so I should be viewing things as your visitors do.
Click Media → Library in your Dashboard to download those images.
Take a look at those three documents and let me know if they appear as yours do.
Incidentally, you should not need to click “shrink to print” at all. That won’t look very good, I suspect. After you click the Print button under your Post, just allow the document to print naturally.
Looking forward to hearing from you. Thanks very much.
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Hi – many thanks for doing the pdfs. Yes, the Firefox one looks just like what happens when I print. Text is printing between two images which, when viewed on the screen, do not have text situated between them. The Chrome one, like you say, looks similar to the FF one, so that is a different outcome from when I print it.
However, my readers (they are generally older, plus they have carefully composed the pages, placing their images precisely where they want them) complain if the printout does not look like what they see on the screen. I understand that we are optimising the pages for viewing, and printing is different, but you actually make the claim that “Twenty Ten includes special styles for printing, so you’ll get printed copies that are just as easy to read as the original.” It isn’t as easy to read because when I print it on Chrome, the images get moved about, separating them from their accompanying text. Also, cutting the images so that they appear partly on one page and partly on the next does not make them “easy to read”, particularly when they are maps.
I am happy to provide a pdf of the pages for people to print from (this page is part of a pdf linked off an earlier intro page), but I am disappointed that you make claims about printing with Twenty Ten which are not justified/open to wide interpretation.
Regarding “shrink to fit”, if I don’t set that, words from the end of each line are not printed.
Well, I won’t put two images on the same line again, aligned left and right – using a table seems safer, but if there is anything you can do about improving printing, or, managing our expectations about printing so that we can convey the message to our readers, it would be much appreciated.
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Hello there! If you could send me PDFs, that would be terrific. Then I can show our theme support team exactly what isn’t working for you. I will send you a private email. Please respond and include any attachments you think would help us to view your issue. Thanks for your patience. Looking forward to hearing from you.
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