Printed Dataface Pages Look Like Dookie In IE

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moj0rising — Fri Feb 02, 2007 12:19 pm

Now Kurtis and I over here are proud Firefox users but our boss has been using Internet Explorer 6 and he discovered a potential problem. When IE users go to our Dataface site and try to print, the page printed out looks very bad (and print preview looks the same) – like it would if the stylesheet was not found/ used.

I have searched the forums and haven’t seen anything on this. I have tried a couple different computers (all WinXP & IE6) with the same results.

We have to sort out this issue because a lot of the people using this application will likely be printing content from it with IE.

Thanks again!

Mike

shannah — Fri Feb 02, 2007 1:09 pm

Can you do a print preview and send me the screen shot so I can see what you mean.ÃŠ Seems to be working ok on IE 6 for me (Windows XP).

-Steve

generatedname — Fri Feb 02, 2007 1:16 pm

http://70.98.54.35/~bmmcom/screenshots/ss1.JPG
http://70.98.54.35/~bmmcom/screenshots/ss2.JPG

those should work

shannah — Fri Feb 02, 2007 4:58 pm

This will take some looking into.ÃŠ Since my apps seem to be working for me on IE, any chance you can give me the link to your app so I can try printing it myself (so at least I have the problem to play with).

-Steve

moj0rising — Fri Feb 02, 2007 5:26 pm

Absolutely!

http://70.98.54.35/~bmmcom/torpedo

UID: nevada
PW: dataface

shannah — Fri Feb 02, 2007 5:46 pm

OK..ÃŠ Here’s the problem (i think).ÃŠ I don’t know why it is even working correctly in the browser - it shouldn’t be.ÃŠ The path that your app is putting in for the stylesheets is “/dataface/plone.css” - i.e. it is specifying a stylesheet that should be located at:http://70.98.54.35/dataface/plone.css.

But it isn’t located there.

This is likely caused by an incorrect 2nd parameter in your call to df_init in your index.php.ÃŠ It should be the URL path to the dataface folder.ÃŠ In your case it should be either ‘/~bmmcom/dataface’ or ‘../dataface’

-Steve

moj0rising — Fri Feb 02, 2007 6:05 pm

Yay! That fixed it. I just changed the path to ../dataface.

Thank you!

Mike