Sent by Bob Easton on 16 September 2005 12:12
Ben Curtis wrote:
>
> It seems that only in very few places on the web can I resize my text,
> then print, and have the printed text respect the new size I've chosen.
> I do this often, because most pages print edge to edge, which is hard
> to read, so I print 2-up (two shrunken pages, side-by-side and rotated,
> on one sheet of paper) to mimic columns. But if the print is too small,
> I try to enlarge it before printing. Sometimes it works; most times it
> doesn't.
>
> Is there some CSS thing that either helps or hinders the print version
> taking the same resized text as the screen version? Although my reason
> for discovering the failure is not common, I suspect that people who
> enlarge text on the screen will want it larger on paper, and I don't
> want to get in the way of that.
>
Interesting question. It is especially pertinent if you are thinking
about using "Zoom" layouts, which make it even easier to enlarge text in
ways that don't break a page into an unreadable mess. (1)
Imagine letting people switch to a zoom layout and then print from that.
This is a scenario that calls for no print style sheet, and having the
zoom sheet set for type="screen, projection, print".
Another scenario suggests having no explicit print style sheet, or one
that makes absolutely no font-size declarations.
(1) http://www.alistapart.com/articles/lowvision
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Bob Easton
Accessibility Matters: http://access-matters.com
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