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Posted by Les Juby on October 1, 2004, 7:43 am
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On Thu, 30 Sep 2004 16:32:09 +0100, Mark Tranchant
>Les Juby wrote:
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>> Any suggestions please.....?
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>Yeah - use PDF for publishing stuff to be printed. Browsers' support for
>printing is poor, and HTML isn't designed for it. Possibly try Opera, as
>that's alleged to have relatively good printing functionality.
Absolutely. * BUT*, to publish to PDF you have to print to the PDF
driver from the HTML and you're back at the same problem. Or have I
got it wrong somewhere...?
I think this can be done with @media: page CSS-2 commands..?
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Posted by Lauri Raittila on October 5, 2004, 9:54 pm
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says...
> On Thu, 30 Sep 2004 16:32:09 +0100, Mark Tranchant
>
> >Les Juby wrote:
> >
> >> Any suggestions please.....?
> >
> >Yeah - use PDF for publishing stuff to be printed. Browsers' support for
> >printing is poor, and HTML isn't designed for it. Possibly try Opera, as
> >that's alleged to have relatively good printing functionality.
Yes.
> Absolutely. * BUT*, to publish to PDF you have to print to the PDF
> driver from the HTML and you're back at the same problem. Or have I
> got it wrong somewhere...?
Then the problem will be solved already when someone else tries to print
your catalog.
> I think this can be done with @media: page CSS-2 commands..?
Surely. If they happen to work.
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Lauri Raittila <http://www.iki.fi/lr> <http://www.iki.fi/zwak/fonts>
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