[ncl-install] printing Cygwin install instructions

[Jeremy Winick]

This is surely an old problem of printing the html. Here is a note I 
wrote in 2013:

I have mentioned this previously, but here are some more details since 
it is frustrating to try and print out a documentation subject and only 
get one page. This seems to occur all the time when viewing a page .shtml.
I am using Firefox 20.0 , Mozilla Firefox for Ubuntu canonical -1.0 and 
Ubuntu 10.04 LTS. I just tried to print the information on 
NhlChangeWorkstation, the URL is 
www.ncl.ucar.edu/Document/Functions/Built-in/NhlChangeWorkstation.shtml 
. The page shows NCAR Command Language and NCL Home 
 >Documentation>Functions>Workstation routines. I print asking for 
entire document, I only get one page, it ends with the line:
zo = natgrids(x, y, z, xo, yo) : Interpolate

The preview function also only show this one page, so it is clear the 
print processing doesn't realize it is more than one page.

If I try this from a different browser, say, Chrome 25.0.1364.160 Ubuntu 
10.04 (25.0.1364.160-0ubuntu0.10.04.1)
brings up a window when I try to print: Print Failed: something went 
wrong when trying to print. Please check your printer and try again". 
The printer dialog comes up and prints OK on other pages.

On the Opera browser, I do get the full page printed but on subsequent 
pages I also get the header (NCL Examples Functions etc) that write over 
the text.

Jeremy

Is there some strange way you create your html on-line help that messes 
up browsers that try to print it?


On 04/23/2015 08:55 AM, Mary Haley wrote:
> Hi Dave,
>
> This is odd, I have the same problem too.  In Firefox I can get the 
> first page, but in Safari I get nothing.
>
> I just realized that we have a ticket open on this ((NCL-1749), but 
> haven't looked into it.  I will try to elevate this and see if we can 
> find a solution.
>
> Meanwhile, I've attached a PDF of the instructions here.  I did this 
> by opening the file on my local machine without all the header 
> information. I believe it's that stuff that's causing the print problems.
>
> --Mary
>
> On Wed, Apr 22, 2015 at 1:26 PM, David B. Reusch <dreusch at ees.nmt.edu 
> <mailto:dreusch at ees.nmt.edu>> wrote:
>
>     I'm having trouble with a Cygwin install that I need for my student to
>     run NCL and was hoping to print the NCL page for "Installing and
>     running
>     NCL under Cygwin/X".  Unfortunately, neither of my Mac browsers
>     produces
>     a useful PDF:  it's a blank page in Safari and a truncated page in
>     Firefox (even on different OS X releases).  I almost never print NCL
>     pages so I don't know if they're all like this or I'm just being
>     really
>     unlucky with my browsers.  Regardless, what I'm really after is
>     the list
>     of required packages and was hoping someone else could check to see if
>     printing works.
>
>     I realize this isn't exactly an "install" question but I'm a bit
>     desperate at the moment (I'll eventually be able to check on my
>     Win7 PC
>     at home after work, though I don't know if it'll work there any
>     better).
>
>     Thanks!
>     Dave
>
>     --
>     Associate Research Professor of Climatology
>     Dept of Earth and Environmental Science
>     MSEC 304; 801 Leroy Place
>     New Mexico Tech
>     Socorro, NM 87801
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