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Posted by dorayme on 07/21/05 04:33
> From: Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@schestowitz.com>
>
> crjunk@earthlink.net wrote:
>
>> First, let me say that I know that doing something like preventing the
>> user from changing the font size is never a good thing from a usability
>> standpoint.
>>
>> Let me explain why I'm trying to do this. I'm trying to recreate an
>> online payment invoice that looks very similar to the hard copy invoice
>> we mail out to our customers. The user will be able to print out this
>> invoice from their web browser and mail it in along with their payment.
>> The web browser printout needs to be similar in size to the invoice we
>> mail out. I would prefer to create the invoice as a PDF for the user,
>> but because of deadline time constraints, I do not have this luxury.
>>
>> I have found examples on how to limit the size of text in IE, but this
>> solution does not work in FireFox. Is there a way to "lock" the size
>> of text in Fireox?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> CR Junk
>
> I don't think you can do that and I think you must never force fonts to have
> a fixed size. This will stir up an outrage among people whose sight is
> poorer than yours. Some seniors I know prefer Firefox because of the
> powerful font scaling support (SHIFT accelarator and CTRL+-). Firefox gives
> them the 'power' to read pages even when the Web developer is overly
> adamant.
>
> If you want to generate PDF's on-to-fly, you have a flexible package that
> you can use. It took me only an hour or two to make an HTML->PDF feature
> work.
>
> http://schestowitz.com/Weblog/archives/2005/07/12/wordpress-and-pdf/
>
> The package is widely used in the Open Source community. Since you can never
> fight a browser that puts the user in control, you may wish to just add a
> friendly warning that discourages users from changing the default font
> size. Also don't forget that pages will be rendered differently on
> different platforms, browsers and devices.
>
> Roy
>
Would there not be a way to simply fix the font size in a stylesheet for
printing only while yet leaving the screen image free to be seen at whatever
font size the user finds comfortable?
dorayme
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