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Posted by wayne on 07/24/05 05:21
Roy Schestowitz wrote:
> dorayme wrote:
>
>
>>>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
>
>
> I would know the answer because I almost never print anything. I imagine the
> printer will receive the input in a WYSIWYG fashion, so if print.css is
> selected and displayed on the screen, problems will arise. I don't know
> what will happen if the browser or O/S is configured to choose print.css
> 'behind the scenes'.
>
> Neredbojias actually pointed out a good solution that I hadn't thought of.
> From experience, however, even scaling fonts based on the window
> (technically speaking, _visible frame_ rather, which excludes toolbars and
> window decorations) size is not something you can rely on. It does
> /roughly/ the right thing and I don't know how many browsers support it.
>
> Roy
>
different css styesheets do work! Even in IE. This is what I use:
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="styles/main.css"
media="screen" />
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="styles/print.css"
media="print" />
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Wayne
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