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Subject:Re: Designing a web page so that it prints nicely From:Emily Berk <emily -at- armadillosoft -dot- com> To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com> Date:Thu, 20 Jan 2005 09:04:18 -0800
Thanks, Barry. This IS a very good overview.
Once Char had pointed out the CSS solution, searching for additional information (in case I needed it), became SO much easier.
I will check out the CSS tool. I've been hand-coding the stuff since I tried some other tool which made me utterly miserable a while back. (It still pops up sometimes when I accidently push the wrong button and ewwww I get the shivers.)
CSS is truly not easy to implement.
OTOH, my client & graphical designer & I just had a font-tweeking meeting. It really was magic to just change every single instance of a text item throughout the site with a single change.
-- Emily
At 09:50 AM 1/19/2005 -0500, Barry Campbell wrote:
>Emily,
>
>Char has pointed you in the right direction (use CSS, create a
>print-specific style sheet) but I just wanted to point you to this
>article, which is a good (and brief!) introducton to the topic:
>
>http://www.webdesignschoolreview.com/css-printing.html
>
>If you Google something like "webpages print css" you'll be deluged
>with information.
>
>Also, wanted to point you to an excellent tool for creating and
>working with style sheets: Bradbury Software's "TopStyle." The "Lite"
>version is free and the "Pro" version is affordably priced (around $80
>if memory serves, try-before-you-buy download available.)
>
>http://www.bradsoft.com/download/index.asp
>
>I have no affiliation with Bradbury other than being a very satisfied
>user of their product.
>
>- bc
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