I have created a print button on my site which launches the print dialogue box. I also have a print.css file which is used to layout the print document. In this print.css file I have discarded everything I don't need. Only the logo of the company, title of the page, the header image and the relevant content will print.
All looks dandy when I view it with the web developer toolbar in FF. When testing in Internet Explorer I get random text and my logo image decides it is going to sit anywhere it likes.
Is there a resource of best print practices to follow for printing, specifically in IE?
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I'm a writer.
I'm creating an enhanced Epub novel with Sigil.
Within the novel, I display small size pictures. For each picture, I want the reader to click on the legend below the picture that will direct them directly to the picture in a lightbox (or modal or featherlight) on my future website with a code like this :
<p>
Picture of Redwoods
</p>
When the reader closes the lightbox (or modal or featherlight), the page of my website, where a smaller sized image (along with other smaller pictures)is displayed, appears.
My future website will be with Joomla 3 with Astroid Framework/template.
I read about BS modal, BS lightbox, Featherlight but I'm lost. I want to do my own clean code with the least plugins/modules possible.
Is it possible to make a link (from an Epub or even an other webpage) to an opened "lightbox (modal ?) image" on a website ? And when you close the lightbox/modal image, the page containing the lightboxe/modal code appears ?
Thanks a lot.
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I am currently trying to add a "Print Label" functionality. After clicking the button, the print preview dialog should open and print in the label format (which is different and hidden from the screen view).
I had tested in chrome, IE, Firefox and safari in Windows 7. However, only chrome works as expected, printing in the expected page size and style. For IE and Firefox, although the label format stays intact when I save in PDF, I can only print in the letter (default) page size, which means a disaster when I use the label printer to print. When I attempt to change the page size to the custom label size, IE crashes while Firefox does not let me open the properties in the system print dialog. For safari (IN WINDOWS), I can print in the custom label size, however, I cannot remove the header and footer, resulting the label format to split into many pages.
The questions I have are:
1. Is the culprit the custom label size, or is it because of the limitations of the other browsers?
2. How can I remove headers and footers in Safari (windows)? My findings are pessimistic about that for now...
3. Are there any ways for me to generate print preview dialog, instead of print dialog, for other browsers? (Something like chrome)
4. Are there any ways for me to use Javascript to preset print settings, to set the printer to the label printer and change page size to the custom label size?
Thanks if anyone can enlighten me.
My upcoming mobile web project requires viewing dynamically chosen pdf files inside the webpage. I am using iFrame to display the pdf file and the file can be scrolled using two-finger scrolling. But the problems I am facing are:
The first page of the file is not displayed completely on the iPad and gets cut off along the width unlike when I view it on the desktop browsers where the first page of the pdf is always entirely displayed although zoomed out to fit in the iFrame area.
There is no visual indication for the users that the pdf document can be scrolled, i.e., there is no scroll bar on the pdf document.
The controls (page navigation, zoom etc.) for the pdf viewer (Adobe reader) don't appear on the document unlike when I see it on the desktop browsers.
What is the best way to achieve what I am trying to do? Do any of you experts know any solutions/workarounds to the problems I am facing? An entirely different approach using anything other than iFrame can also be considered.
The reason why the pdf should be inside the html page is that, the list of pdf files will be on a menu bar on the left side of the page and the user can click on any of them to view on the same page. Ideally, they will have the capability to toggle between full screen view and that view.
Any help is appreciated.
I created a tiny JavaScript module that helps you to show a PDF inline and be able to scroll it. But I also couldn't figure out a way to make it fit the total width of the parent container.
Check it out: https://github.com/williamrjribeiro/ipdf-scroll
Cheers.
I came across this Recommended way to embed PDF in HTML? while researching on the web to find an answer.
The mentioned link discusses about some options that I can use and the google document viewer works for me though don't know if there is anything (like data limit) I need to be aware of before using it on the website. Also I have no idea if it is a good solution (though the full screen mode is not available, but zoom-in/zoom-out and next/prev page buttons are there are show up in the mobile safari on the iPad) to use for an web app that will be run on the iPad.
Anyway, I will keep researching for a better solution and if i don't find any, I'll stick to the google document viewer.
The issue appears to be a bug with Safari on the IPad.
I didn't find a solution for embedding the pdf in html but I did find this:
If you return FileStreamResult from your controller action instead of a view, the pdf will open in a new tab, it's not embedded html but at least your user is not having to download files and open them manually.
I had the same problem of the pdf not being displayed completely. The only thing I found to fix this was the change the size of the div containing the pdf.
For example if the element containing the pdf is a div then I change its width to any value and the rollback to the value it had before. Changing Width or height any one works.
Sometimes I had to wait a little using a setTimeout before calling my resizable method
I have a PDF rendering app that loads PDF content from a URL (CGPDFDocumentCreateWithURL). The PDF loads fine, and I can display on screen no problem. These PDF also contain text for searching. I'm trying to make this comtent visible to the VoiceOver API. I've never worked with this frameowrk before.
Anyone have any hints or links that can help me get started?
If you have access to the text from the particular PDF page, you can set the accessibilityValue of the view you are using to display the page to the text value. This will then read the contents out.
If for some reason your PDF view is not accessible to voiceover, you can use an overlay view, and update its accessibility value as you change pages.
The goal is to 'soften' hyperlinks off to external content slightly by displaying an external link bar at the top of the window, that displays above the content on the external website - containing a line of text that reads something along the lines of "The content you are viewing is not owned by this site, close this browser window to return to site name".
I know there's a way to achieve this using frames, but as far as I understand it frames are bad news for accessibility. Furthermore, if the user then accesses a site which itself has a frame set, there can be all sorts of fun and games!
Would welcome any feedback. Could something like this be achievable with jQuery perhaps?
No, you need to use frames. You need to have some degree of control, and the only way you can do that with remote addresses, is by keeping the user on your server, and showing the remote pages in a frame.
That being said, if the remote sites have a partnership with you, you could discuss a javascript option which displays a bar on the top of their pages whenever a specific cookie is set indicating the traffic came from your site initially.