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1) Printing to PDF, and then if that looks good printing the PDF.
2) Sending an email with the URL to your directions to some other people to
try printing for you on their computers. (I'm happy to volunteer and then
send you back a PDF or my results if I have success.
3) Define a stopping place or two in your directions and then print the
shorter ones.
I guess, these are the things I would try not being a magic Google Maps wiz!
Meryl
On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 4:36 PM, Ken Poshedly <poshedly -at- bellsouth -dot- net>wrote:
> This has nothing to do with anything else I've seen here so let's change
> gears
> for a bit.
>
> I'm using Google maps to provide me with a driving route of several hundred
> miles from Atlanta to Jacksonville (for an out-of-town conference I am
> attending
> later this week).
>
>
> The onscreen Google map route directions document looks great and includes
> both
> the text directions (turn right, etc.) and thumbnail diagrams for each
> step.
>
> But when I print that document (in this case, a 7-pager), pages 3 and 5 are
> blank except for the header and footer text at the very top and bottom of
> each
> page. (Headers correctly designate page 3 and page 5, and the footers
> include
> the Google.maps web site URL and the very long string of various
> alpha-numeric
> code for the rest of the document.)
>
> But the "live area" of both those pages is blank.
>
> I tried printing to two different color printers here at my office,
> thinking
> maybe its a device memory-shortage problem, but the problem remains.
>
> I also tried printing ONLY page 3 at each printer at still is the same
> (text and
> footers but with nothing else on the page).
>
> I also tried printing page 3 to a simple little black-and-white laser
> printer
> here, but yep, same results.
>
> I tried pdf'ing it and yep, same results (blank pages 3 and 5 except for
> headers
> and footers).
>
> Any ideas? PLEASE?
>
> -- Kenpo in Atlanta
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