Pet Peeve - Printing - Landscape

[wrath_of_con]

Maybe I just havent bothered learning the ins and outs of printing in my many years, but it sure seems that National Instruments digital documents - online help files, webpages, etc. always cut off the text to the right in Portrait Printing Mode - maybe I didnt want to print that document in Landscape.

There are still a few times when after sending a bunch of good information to the printer and I log off my computer and I'm about to go my merry way after swinging by the printer for my print job only to find out that "DOH!" I forgot about the dreaded NIDDRTCOIPM syndrome (that would be the hence forth to be known by me as National Instruments Digital Document Right Text Cut Off In Portrait Mode syndrome.)

Just me venting.

Heck - maybe there's a nice little box somewhere I forgot to check that says "Here's a special way to print just for you Con"

Okay, now its back to me learning about Open VI Referencing and reentrant vis.

Thanks for listening.

Message Edited by wrath_of_con on 09-01-2006 10:52 AM

[GovBob]

I totally agree with you on this pet peeve. I can't say how many times I printed some nice "how to" document from NI's web site only to find out that the right side is cut off. Unlike alot of people on these boards my NI development software lies on different computer than this one I use to get on the INET. I hope someone can suggest how we can get around this problem.!

[Kalin_T]

Pet Peeve,

When you click on the print button, your browser sends the navigation menu on the left to the printer as well. The navigation menu takes up considerable space. That's why the right side of the page gets cut off. In our Development Zone, we have solved that problem by providing a "Print that page" link at the top of the document. The same feature will be implemented some time in the near future for our knowledge base entries as well.

In the mean time you can manually highlight the article that you want to print out, right-click on it, and choose Print. Then in the Page Range area, choose "Selection". When you click Print only the selected area will be printed out.

Sorry about the inconvenience.   

Kalin T
Applications Engineer
National Instruments