Greg Lansing said:
It does this a lot. In fact this is a microsoft site it happened to me
today. The url is
http://www.microsoft.com/games/flightsimulator/fs2002_articles_c172_basics.as
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As Frank said, "Bad coding at the site." Microsoft is by no means immune to
this.
For example, I found two errors that could contribute to what you are
experiencing (there are probably more):
1. Generally it is best to avoid fixed-width designs (ref.
http://thewholeinternet.com/gallery3.htm) if one is to avoid screen rendering
and/or print problems. However it is often possible to use fixed-width if
designed for 800x600 (though there will be lots of wasted space on big screen
or high resolution monitors). It appears that the MS page designer attempted
to do just that, as evidenced by the use of a header image that is exactly
800px wide, wrapped within a table that is also 800px wide (with it's padding
and spacing values set to zero). However, they forgot to take into account
"canvas size," and the fact that printers cannot print edge-to-edge (see
http://hotwired.lycos.com/webmonkey/99/41/index3a_page2.html).
2. Use of characters that are not a part of the character set (AKA, codepage
or charset) declared for the page. To wit, the phrase "artificial horizon" is
contained within smart-quotes, rather than straight quotes. Smart-quotes (in
HTML, "“" and "”") are not contained within the "iso-8859-1"
character set declared for this page (ref.
http://thewholeinternet.com/codepage.shtml). The phrase should be within
straight quotes (in HTML, """).
If you can't resolve printing issues by setting narrower left/right margins
(in File > Page Setup), then try reducing the font size (in View > Text
Size). Unfortunately, it won't help you with this Microsoft page, as they
made yet ANOTHER error by unnecessarily specifying fixed-size fonts in CSS
(ref.
http://hotwired.lycos.com/webmonkey/99/41/index3a_page3.html). As a
last resort, print in landscape mode, as Frank suggested.
HTH!
