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Posted by Chung Leong on 08/08/06 03:22
Jesper H. wrote:
> On 2006-08-07, Erwin Moller wrote:
> > Alternatively, you can make a stylesheet for the printer, and tell the
> > browser to use that (without the popupwindow). That should work too,
> > but I prefer the first option because the user can see what will be
> > printed beforehand excactly.
>
> Doesn't most browsers nowadays have a print preview function that takes
> the CSS into consideration? I'm pretty certain that Firefox did last
> time I checked.
>
> --
> |\_/| ,(Meow) Jesper H. <xyborx+usenet@xyborx.dk>
> (^.^)
> `^' Sanity is an illusion
Yeah, and I don't know how many times I've seen the previews of pages
that wouldn't print right :-)
I have to agree with Erwin. It's far easier to create a separate,
printable version of a page than having to come up with a stylesheet
that works for both screen and printer. And sometimes your printable
version will be structurally different from the screen version. For
on-screen viewing you might break a long article into multiple pages.
For printing you would want to output the whole thing.
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