# Using requestPrint on EmbeddedView ruins formating, seeking advice

**URL:** <https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/using-requestprint-on-embeddedview-ruins-formating-seeking-advice/105555>\
**Category:** Ignition\
**Tags:** ignition81, perspective\
**Created:** [April 25, 2025, 7:38am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/using-requestprint-on-embeddedview-ruins-formating-seeking-advice/105555 "2025-04-25T07:38:26Z")\
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**Author:** ![Tburgess](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/tburgess/32/67018_2.png) [@Tburgess](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Tburgess)\
**Post date:** [April 25, 2025, 7:38am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/using-requestprint-on-embeddedview-ruins-formating-seeking-advice/105555/1 "2025-04-25T07:38:26Z")

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Hi,

So my final goal is to have a form that users can enter information into, then press a button and have Ignition help print said form. Simplified example found below:

 ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/original/3X/3/3/336a9f0f2385280d05df72e8ec786dccd427db16.png)

But every time I press the button to print, the format is all destroyed.

 ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/original/3X/c/a/caad198b8a0366528f025c46720c28847535ca4c.png)

I have spent hours just adjusting the CSS, grow, text size everything, but no luck. I was wondering if anybody has run into any similar issues.

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**Author:** ![David\_Stone](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/david_stone/32/79749_2.png) [@David\_Stone](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/David_Stone)\
**Post date:** [April 25, 2025, 8:38am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/using-requestprint-on-embeddedview-ruins-formating-seeking-advice/105555/2 "2025-04-25T08:38:32Z")

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If you post the view data, we might be able to look, its almost impossible to troubleshoot this without your css and view.

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**Author:** ![Tburgess](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/tburgess/32/67018_2.png) [@Tburgess](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Tburgess)\
**Post date:** [April 25, 2025, 8:42am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/using-requestprint-on-embeddedview-ruins-formating-seeking-advice/105555/3 "2025-04-25T08:42:45Z")

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I don't really know how to just show you the view data? But I exported the two views here. Does this work?  
[views.zip](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/uploads/short-url/lQ36loyoC0qfQMxxDbXR86CnQmN.zip) (36.8 KB)

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**Author:** ![David\_Stone](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/david_stone/32/79749_2.png) [@David\_Stone](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/David_Stone)\
**Post date:** [April 25, 2025, 8:53am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/using-requestprint-on-embeddedview-ruins-formating-seeking-advice/105555/4 "2025-04-25T08:53:19Z")

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This is perfect to work with.  
Your form only lines up when it is exactly 450px wide.  
You need to style it so that every part of it scales at the same rate, the way it is right now you have many things scaling at many different rates.

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**Author:** ![David\_Stone](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/david_stone/32/79749_2.png) [@David\_Stone](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/David_Stone)\
**Post date:** [April 25, 2025, 9:34am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/using-requestprint-on-embeddedview-ruins-formating-seeking-advice/105555/5 "2025-04-25T09:34:57Z")

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[views2.zip](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/uploads/short-url/9ZOzdfVIPbsphEckTHAb8WUxEEK.zip) (46.4 KB)

Have a look at how I have converted your layout to use % values the whole way through and organised the elements in containers differently.