Re: Printing Internet Drafts

["Andrew G. Malis" <Andy.Malis at vivacenetworks.com>]

Ting,

Assuming you use MS Word, here are a few steps to perfectly printed
I-Ds:

1. Save the I-D from your browser to your hard drive as a .txt file (not
HTML).
2. Start MS Word and open the draft in Word.
3. Use Print Preview to see how it will print (scroll down a few pages to
check it out).  Usually, it'll look just fine, but sometimes the
pages overflow and you get two pages to be printed for every one in the
document.  In that case, use the ruler on the left of the print
preview window to increase the page length until the I-D pages fit.
4. Print to your hearts content.

Occasionally, a draft will use lots of white page between pages rather
than form feeds.  These are notoriously difficult to print
correctly, and if I really need hardcopy I will usually use global
replace to replace the white space with a page separator.

Cheers,
Andy

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At 10/23/2001 11:44 AM -0700, Ting.Cai at TeraBeam.com wrote:

> Hi, 
>
> I have a question on how to print Internet Draft with the
> right pagination on Windows machine. 
>
> Take the document below as an example, 
>
> http://search.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-hain-msword-template-06.txt
>
> If I print this document from Internet Explorer or notepad, the page breaks occur at the wrong place. 
>
> If I type "type draft-hain-msword-template-06.txt > LPT1" in the cmd window. The page breaks appears at the right place, but the font has changed. 
>
> Do you have any suggestion on how to print the draft with right pagination on Windows machines? 
>
> Thanks. 
>
> Ting