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Manfred Lotz | 26 Apr 2012 14:28
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Print a page in moinmoin

Hi there,
After happily converting my existing wiki to Moinmoin I wanted to print
a page (unfortunately I didn't test it before).

The problem I'm facing is that the print looks like a print of a
presentation page. Instead of a single A4 page I got 4 pages in
landscape.

I want the text to appear on paper as normal text in A4
portrait.

Anything, I can do to get it like I want?

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Paul Boddie | 26 Apr 2012 23:42
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Re: Print a page in moinmoin

On Thursday 26 April 2012 14:28:26 Manfred Lotz wrote:
> Hi there,
> After happily converting my existing wiki to Moinmoin I wanted to print
> a page (unfortunately I didn't test it before).
>
> The problem I'm facing is that the print looks like a print of a
> presentation page. Instead of a single A4 page I got 4 pages in
> landscape.

What are your print settings in your browser?

> I want the text to appear on paper as normal text in A4
> portrait.

The print stylesheets - what the browser uses to format pages for printing - 
depend on which theme is being used, but generally they just remove all the 
navigation and "furniture" that you usually see around the page content and 
only preserve the page text, so you should get a fairly plain printout by 
default, but the paper size and orientation are things your browser will be 
in control of, not the stylesheet.

> Anything, I can do to get it like I want?

I recommend checking your print settings and verifying that the paper size is 
A4, that the output is scaled to 100%, and that you have one page per side. 
Firefox is a bit confusing in this respect as you have the print preview 
settings and then the actual printer settings. I recommend tuning the preview 
to look more or less correct and then verifying that, when choosing to 
actually print, you aren't putting more than one page per side or anything 
like that.
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Manfred Lotz | 30 Apr 2012 21:59
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Re: Print a page in moinmoin

On Thu, 26 Apr 2012 23:42:52 +0200
Paul Boddie <paul <at> boddie.org.uk> wrote:

> On Thursday 26 April 2012 14:28:26 Manfred Lotz wrote:
> > Hi there,
> > After happily converting my existing wiki to Moinmoin I wanted to
> > print a page (unfortunately I didn't test it before).
> >
> > The problem I'm facing is that the print looks like a print of a
> > presentation page. Instead of a single A4 page I got 4 pages in
> > landscape.
> 
> What are your print settings in your browser?
> 

I have to admit I'm really confused, because of the following: For some
reasons the wiki is synchronized over two laptops. My user settings
have the same theme sinorca4moin active. If on the one laptop I print
page SomePage say to pdf the pdf printer shows up: A4 and portrait. The
printing results in a single A4 page. On the other laptop printing
SomePage to PDF the settings are: A4 and landscape. If I change it to
portrait the output PDF has 4 pages. The fonts are big like I had tried
to print a powerpoint document in portrait.

Hmm, I just found that print preview on the other laptop was set to 200%
and to landscape. When changing it back to 100% and portrait printing
works fine now on the second laptop as well.

Although solved now, I'm still confused.
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Paul Boddie | 30 Apr 2012 23:21
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Re: Print a page in moinmoin

On Monday 30 April 2012 21:59:40 Manfred Lotz wrote:
>
> I have to admit I'm really confused, because of the following: For some
> reasons the wiki is synchronized over two laptops. My user settings
> have the same theme sinorca4moin active. If on the one laptop I print
> page SomePage say to pdf the pdf printer shows up: A4 and portrait. The
> printing results in a single A4 page. On the other laptop printing
> SomePage to PDF the settings are: A4 and landscape. If I change it to
> portrait the output PDF has 4 pages. The fonts are big like I had tried
> to print a powerpoint document in portrait.
>
> Hmm, I just found that print preview on the other laptop was set to 200%
> and to landscape. When changing it back to 100% and portrait printing
> works fine now on the second laptop as well.
>
> Although solved now, I'm still confused.

I think printing is pretty confused in the browser - or at least in Firefox - 
anyway. I got confused just checking my own settings because I expected to 
see all the different settings in the preview, but there's a layer below that 
in the print dialogue itself. How they interact is anybody's guess!

My solution is to leave the actual print settings on some kind of sane default 
unless I really want to print four pages per side/sheet, and to try and have 
things like paper sizes mostly in agreement. I have also in the past printed 
to PDF to get something that won't be mysteriously rescaled or reformatted 
and then printed that PDF file.

Paul
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Manfred Lotz | 1 May 2012 04:43
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Re: Print a page in moinmoin

On Mon, 30 Apr 2012 23:21:33 +0200
Paul Boddie <paul <at> boddie.org.uk> wrote:

> On Monday 30 April 2012 21:59:40 Manfred Lotz wrote:
> >
...
> 
> My solution is to leave the actual print settings on some kind of
> sane default unless I really want to print four pages per side/sheet,
> and to try and have things like paper sizes mostly in agreement. I
> have also in the past printed to PDF to get something that won't be
> mysteriously rescaled or reformatted and then printed that PDF file.
> 

I agree. It seems to be the best not to touch the print settings in the
browser, and if I have special needs to print to a pdf document. Then I
could try whatever I want.

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Manfred

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