I believe 2) is a problem and the header rows not appearing on subsequent sheets is a problem.
The other thing that i find awkward is printing out a series and individual races (on seperate sheets to avoid a single
race overflowing page boundaries), since
if you combine it as one (as you would publishing to a web site) the individual races dont start on a new page (without
some editing) so you end up publishing the series result and the printing it. Then publishing each race individually
and printing it. This is slow, tedious and means you have to keep altering the publish options which is error prone.
This is usefull for handicap events where people like to see the corrected times as well as their positions in each race.
John
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-----Original Message-----
From: Colin Jenkins [mailto:colin@sailwave.com]
Sent: 23 June 2004 14:48
To: sailwave@yahoogroups.com
Subject: RE: [sailwave] Re: Printing Problems
Hi Donald et al,
The original idea was to generate HTML and then get a web browser to print
it. As I understand it, the problem with this is twofold:-
1. Some browsers split the table rows in half at the bottom of a page,
making that row spread across two pages vertically and hence is unreadable.
I've never seen a browser do this - it always splits the row at a sensible
place so the text itself is never split.
2. When using a large font (or a long series) the number of columns can
overflow a landscape sheet of paper horizontally - and browsers do not
handle this.
Is that correct?
Or is 1. more do to with the fact that the header rows are only available on
the first page?
Regards,
Colin J
www.sailwave.com
-----Original Message-----
From: longcove2002 [mailto:Donald.Wyllie@smu.ca]
Sent: 23 June 2004 13:08
To: sailwave@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [sailwave] Re: Printing ProblemsHi Colin: One chap already replied explaining what he does to print
from Frontpage. It seemed to be immensely tedious deleting rows and so
on. So,I really have two questions. One is that output from Sailwave
seems to override the Word settings. I set up Word & the printer to
Landscape and Word remembers this for ordinary documents. But output
from Sailwave always comes up in Portrait orientation. Is it Sailwave?
Secondly, the reason I use Word is that allows me to see page breaks.
If I use a web editor printed output can have the top half of a row of
characters on one page and the bottom half on another. OK, I could
slice the pages up with a knife and join them together. The chap who
kindly replied said that he temporarily deletes rows, prints,
undeletes those rows and deletes what he printed etc. - more or less.
This is unbelieveably crude and time consuming. I have about 8 fleets
which run to three or four pages of printout for each fleet. I would
be up half the night getting results published. Maybe it is something
we have to expect when we use Microsoft products! Or, more likely, it
is me not understanding how web editors work. But I can find no
mechanism which will make what I see on the screen print on paper when
using a web editor.
This has been my rant for several years now. But I still have no idea
how other users deal with this problem.
A final problem. I have just set up Sailwave on a computer to go to
the Club. For practice I put last year's results on a floppy and
transferred them to a new folder on the new computer. Now, when I try
to publish, Sailwave says that it can't find the floppy even though
the data is in a folder on the c: drive. I have to hit continue. Is
there something embedded doing this? Should I have just transferred
the .blw files rather than all the files generated by Sailwave in that
Regatta folder?
Bye, Disturbed in Bedford— In sailwave@yahoogroups.com, "Colin Jenkins" <colin@s…> wrote:
> Hi Donald,
>
> Nice to hear from you again.
>
> We always print the results from the browser; presumably that
doesn't work
> for you - can you explain (again?) a little bit about why…
>
> Regards,
> Colin
>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: longcove2002 [mailto:Donald.Wyllie@s…]
> > Sent: 22 June 2004 03:28
> > To: sailwave@yahoogroups.com
> > Subject: [sailwave] Printing Problems
> >
> >
> > Once a year I score a regatta and before hand I ask a similar
> > question. "How the heck do I get decent quality print from Sailwave?"
> > I set up the printer to landscape orientation. Set up Word to
> > Landscape and alter the margins to suit. I'm a Wordperfect user but
> > while it will remember settings it wont import Sailwave output nicely.
> > I can't use Frontpage for it is stupid about pagebreaks and can print
> > half lines of text on different pages. Forced to use Word. If I start
> > Word normally it will come up in landscape orientation. But when
> > importing Sailwave output it always starts in portrait. It drives me
> > nuts. I admit I know nothing about HTML editing. So what do all you
> > Sailwave users do to get decent looking output that sailors can see
> > from the back of the crowd? Clearly I'm missunderstanding some aspect
> > of the arcane ritual. Any help please? Thanks, Donald
> >
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