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Posted by Brunhilda on 20 May 2008 08:24, last edited on 05 Mar 2009 07:49

This wish has a workaround, but has not been granted

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Right now, if I print an article, page break is not satisfactory — it cuts in two the photos, or it leaves the title on the previous page and the text body on the following. I would really like to have the print friendly option, so when someone wants to print the article from my site, he gets then acceptable printed copy, with whole pictures, and not broken in two pages….

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workaround

mattdm 12 Sep 2008 16:43

There is a workaround for this:

[[div style="page-break-after:always"]]
[[/div]]

I find that a lot of typing and hard to remember, so I put that in a page named "pagebreak", so I can then just do:

[[include pagebreak]]

Re: workaround

mattdm 12 Sep 2008 16:45

This works in Firefox 3. I can't really test it in other browsers, but I'd be curious to hear your results.

Re: workaround

Brunhilda 12 Sep 2008 17:06

Hi, Matt! Thanks for the tip! But you will have to tell me where I should put exactly this div or include template….

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If slaughterhouses had glass walls, everyone would be vegan. - Paul McCartney

Re: workaround

mattdm 16 Sep 2008 18:25

Put it in your wiki page wherever you want a pagebreak to happen. It'll be invisible onscreen, but you'll see it when you print (or use your browser's print preview function).

Alternately, if you don't want to specifically place pagebreaks but want to avoid having them in a certain section (like between a picture and its captions), wrap the whole section with

[[div style="page-break-inside:avoid"]]

blah blah blah your text
[[image]]
[[whatever]]

[[/div]]

Re: workaround

Brunhilda 17 Sep 2008 08:15

Thanks, Matt, but I find it a little bit too much work… I was thinking about something more automatic…

Now I have 106 pages that should be arranged like this, and the number is still growing. Automatic page break would be the only practical solution to this.

Thank you anyway! :)
B.

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If slaughterhouses had glass walls, everyone would be vegan. - Paul McCartney

Last edited on 17 Sep 2008 08:15 by Brunhilda Show more

Re: workaround

erdraug 15 Oct 2008 10:31

On the contrary i have a page with some monster-siezd tables and find the [[include pagebreak]] solution quite handy, thank you matt :-)