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Estimate Your Web Document’s Printed Size

There are times when you’d like to know a little bit about how your Web page will print. For example, if you are dynamically generating reports, you can put a button on the page that calls window.print() to print the page. However, you might end up with a 500-page document if you’re not careful! The following function will estimate how many pages a Web page will print on:

   var m_iPages;  function window_onload() {    //Dividing by 824.2 yields the approximate number of pages    //in landscape mode.  For portrait, use 1019.4    //alert(

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