Dreamweaver Printing Question

[Webfoot]

I have to resubmit this question because I am a html illiterate non-geek graphic designer. Keeping this in mind, is there anyway for me to solve the following problem with the wysiwyg menus or palettes in Dreamweaver without having to learn html? Or perhaps a way to plug in a pre-written code I would need from some html code site? With specific instructions on exactly where to copy and paste the code? Thank you.
I built a page entirely with layers in Dreamweaver 4 (haven’t been able to upgrade yet.) The pages preview fine in Navigator 7.2, Explorer and Safari, but when I try to print the page from the browsers, the position of the layers is all screwed up. Any way to fix this? Also, I did try to open the page and re-save it with Acrobat to make a printer friendly pdf version, but part of the right side and the bottom of the page was cut off in the pdf. :confused:

[Compguy Pete]

ok you need to do 3 things...

1. post a link to the page.
2. upload and post a link here to your pdf.
3. you mention you want some prewritten code to do what? finish the page?

[KDLA]

The issue is that you're using absolute positioning for the layers (if you're using DW to create those layers). That positioning is based on the width of the browser window. When you print, that positioning must change its point of reference, becoming reliant upon the margins of the paper/printer. Because your page was designed for a screen, rather than print, it is possible that the enforced margins for printing are causing portions of your layers to be omitted.

As I had advised earlier (http://webdeveloper.internet.com/forum/showthread.php?t=129491), you need to create a print stylesheet, one that moves the layers to fit on the paper, or else eliminates certain elements so that the layout can shrink to fit.

Reference: http://css-discuss.incutio.com/?page=PrintStylesheets

KDLA