nagasiva wrote:
>> On this, completely unrelated, issue of printing, it's certainly worth
>> providing a version of your FAQ specifically designed for print, since most
>> web browsers make a godawful job of rendering a page for printing.
[...]
> thanks. my wife and I tend to plan for this by making sure that we have a
> 500 pixel width graphic which provides the outside border for the browser,
> as we'd understood that 500 pixels pretty much accomodates any printer and
> allows someone to adjust their browser window to that width and us to make
> what we're coding to the proper dimension to fit on most printers. does
> this sound reasonable?
As far as it goes, OK. However, fixing a web page to a certain width is very
bad design practice for a variety of reasons.
It's generally better to provide a separate printable version. Another
advantage of this is that you can use print fonts rather than screen fonts,
which generally look terrible on paper.
Cheers,
Nick
-- Hello? Gladys? It is the 21st century ;) -- Aq, Tol Honeth mailing list************************************************************* To unsubscribe send a message to majordomo@faqs.org as
unsubscribe faq-maintainers fill-in-your-email-address-here *************************************************************
[
FAQ Archive |
Search FAQ Mail Archive |
Authors |
Usenet References
]
[
1993 |
1994 |
1995 |
1996 |
1997 |
1998 |
1999 |
2000
]
© Copyright The Internet FAQ Consortium, 1997-2000
All rights reserved