[ncl-install] printing Cygwin install instructions

[David B. Reusch]

Much better.  Thank you Dave!  -dave

David Brown wrote on 4/24/2015 6:26 PM:
> I think I have fixed this problem. I was able to successfully print
> the NhlChangeWorkstation doc from Safari, Firefox, and Chrome. Let us
> know if you still have problems.
>   -dave
>
> On Thu, Apr 23, 2015 at 5:34 PM, Jeremy Winick <winickjr at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 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>
>> 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
>>>
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Dept of Earth and Environmental Science
MSEC 304; 801 Leroy Pl
New Mexico Tech
Socorro, NM 87801