Off topic: Printing problem, need help

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#1

Hi everyone

Sorry that this is not a TiddlyWiki related question. But I have scoured Google, asked Dynalist, checked my printer preferences, and I can’t fix it. I don’t know where to turn.

I discovered this a couple of months ago. When I print a bulleted list in a multi-page document in certain applications, the last bullet of one page will finish on the second page, but will overlap with the text for the second page. See example here top of page 2: https://giffmex.org/experiments/Hebrews%20books%20and%20commentaries%20-%20Dynalist.pdf

  • This is regardless of whether I print to pdf or print a physical copy
  • This happens in both Firefox and Chrome on Windows, so the problem shouldn’t be a browser setting or extension
  • This happens in Dynalist, but it also happened a while back with something that was not Dynalist, (can’t remember what it was, maybe Word or Google docs) so the problem is not limited to Dynalist.
  • I removed my custom CSS in Dynalist settings, but that did not help.
  • When I shared the Dynalist page that this link comes from (Login - Dynalist), other Dynalist users had no problem printing it correctly. So it seems to be something on my end.
  • Bulleted lists print properly from TiddlyWiki, though.
  • I can’t think of any setting at the level of Windows that I would have changed that would have caused this problem. I don’t tend to go into the registry or the settings.

Any idea what is happening or what I can do to get this printing properly? If I can’t print properly from Dynalist, it is a deal breaker for me for continuing with Dynalist. Which is very frustrating, because it is really easy to write and reorganize paragraphs in Dynalist.

Thanks in advance for any wisdom…

#2

Does the Dynalist app for windows allow you to print?

I’ve never had a good experience printing from browsers. My test on linux Chromium gives me an overflow error very simiilar to yours.

I would ask the people who are not having problems printing to take a screenshot of their print settings, including the more advanced settings under “More settings” (Chrome). Like checking mine I see that I have a scale setting of 155 which might cause some of the problems.

The obvious solution would be to copy everything to Word, but I see that the DL export throws away most of the formatting! They definitely get a “D” in exporting.

Ok, found a solution that seems to work, though it’s clunky. Use the extension Print Edit WE. Open the extension on your page. Use the webview setting. Then select the block that contains all of the material you want to save (i.e. not the control thingies). Use “Delete Except” to only show the part you want. Preview your page and see where you need a pagebreak. Go to the block where you need a pagebreak and select the entire block. Use the format option. From the dialog box (you may have to expand) pick the page-break option. Set the menu to “before” and down below in the controls section unset everything except “important”. Then apply. Nothing appears to have changed – you have to preview to see the page break in effect. Repeat/rinse for each place you need the page break.

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#3

I have not experienced the specific problem you have but keep the following in mind.

  • It looks to me like there is no page break information so it moves on to the next page as if it were continuous.
  • The output is critically linked to the Printer driver in use, try others
  • If you / the document, do not provide page breaks then drivers will guestimate
  • There are various printer properties including margins, if you use custom margins you may be exceeding the “printable margins”, even on a software printer, most printers will not print at the very edge, so widen the margins a little.
  • A combination of the software and the driver impacts the result so it you may need to look into what the software is doing with the page as well.
  • In TiddlyWiki to PDF print solutions I needed to use the @media print and set break after, inside (avoid) etc…
#4

Hi Mark and Tony, thank you both for your replies.

I had forgotten about the Dynalist desktop app. I downloaded it and it works. It does not split long nodes at the end of pages but drops them down to the next page. That will be the answer I need! Thanks for the lateral thinking.