[ncl-install] printing Cygwin install instructions

[David Brown]

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
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>> New Mexico Tech
>> Socorro, NM 87801
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