Posted by Ed Mullen on 05/08/07 18:05

fermineutron wrote:
> A friend of mine asked me to make a tool which will let her print
> graph paper with cells of chosen size. I want to make a php script to
> output a table with cells being a given size to yeild graphpater when
> webpage is printed. What I need to know is:
>
> what is a printable area width and height of a webpage? I do realize
> that the height part is somewhat hard to judge because webpage can go
> on and on and on.... What is a pizel resolution of webpage in relation
> to printer resolution? If user has his desktop resolution set to say
> 1024x768 vs user who has resolution set 800x600 if i put a table with
> width 90% will this table when printed by both users occupy 90% of the
> page width?
>
> How does this analogy apply to cell height?
>
> Thanks ahead
>
Not sure why you want to do this using a browser. Why not a table in
Word where you can set the row and column dimensions explicitly in
fractions of an inch for printing?

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