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Original Post: MSDN killing trees/spirit unnecessarily
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I've been bitten yet again. I just printed the 28 page WS-Security Drilldown in Web Services Enhancements 2.0 document and found that the copy runs off of the page. This happens all the time and I have to cross my fingers and re-print in landscape mode.
I don't like reading long articles on the computer and printing things lets me read them on the bus/train while commuting. MSDN uses special printing magic so when you click the Print This Page link, a different, printer-friendly page is printed instead of the one you're currently viewing. Selecting File|Print Preview shows the page as its rendered in the browser, not as it will be printed.
Is it too much to ask to have printed documents fit on a portrait 8.5” x 11” page? If not, how about a messagebox that tells me I need to switch to landscape mode? If I had an even moderately sophisticated brain I could remember to always do this. I don't, and I don't.
(Don't get me wrong, I love MSDN dearly. I just don't like wasting paper/ink/toner/time.)
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