Print stylesheet
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From: Eric on 31 Mar 2010 09:04 I am seeking a good looking print stylesheet, especially for A4 (or US Letter) on a B&W printer. My screen stylesheet is a little too elaborate to work well for printing from some browsers, and would waste ink on colours and so on. However the simple print stylesheet I used to drop the navigation and other unneeded content is a bit plain so far. Anyone have examples of print stylesheets that they think look particularly attractive?
From: Andreas Prilop on 31 Mar 2010 10:12 On Wed, 31 Mar 2010, Eric wrote: > I am seeking a good looking print stylesheet, especially for A4 (or US > Letter) on a B&W printer. My screen stylesheet is a little too elaborate > to work well for printing from some browsers, and would waste ink on > colours and so on. You do not need a complete separate stylesheet for printing. You specify only those rules in your print stylesheet that should be different from your screen stylesheet. Here a few suggestions: a { background: transparent ; color: black ; text-decoration: none } body { background: white ; color: black ; margin: 0 } h1 { margin-top: 0 } ..newpage { margin-top: 0 ; page-break-before: always } ..noprint { display: none } -- In memoriam Alan J. Flavell http://www.alanflavell.org.uk/charset/
From: Helpful person on 31 Mar 2010 10:20 On Mar 31, 6:04 am, Eric <e...(a)ericlindsay.com> wrote: > I am seeking a good looking print stylesheet, especially for A4 (or US > Letter) on a B&W printer. My screen stylesheet is a little too elaborate > to work well for printing from some browsers, and would waste ink on > colours and so on. However the simple print stylesheet I used to drop > the navigation and other unneeded content is a bit plain so far. > > Anyone have examples of print stylesheets that they think look > particularly attractive? You could tell your printer to print in black and white instead of color. www.richardfisher.com
From: David Stone on 31 Mar 2010 11:47 In article <Pine.LNX.4.64.1003311604580.26535(a)zen.rrzn.uni-hannover.de>, Andreas Prilop <prilop4321(a)trashmail.net> wrote: > On Wed, 31 Mar 2010, Eric wrote: > > > I am seeking a good looking print stylesheet, especially for A4 (or US > > Letter) on a B&W printer. My screen stylesheet is a little too elaborate > > to work well for printing from some browsers, and would waste ink on > > colours and so on. Is this a personal user style sheet that you use to override settings on other peoples pages, or a print style sheet for your site that will affect how it looks when visitors print it out? That might make a difference to the recommendations you get... > You do not need a complete separate stylesheet for printing. > You specify only those rules in your print stylesheet that should be > different from your screen stylesheet. Here a few suggestions: > > a { background: transparent ; color: black ; text-decoration: none } > body { background: white ; color: black ; margin: 0 } > h1 { margin-top: 0 } > .newpage { margin-top: 0 ; page-break-before: always } > .noprint { display: none } There are a couple of suggestions in there that I hadn't thought of, but make good sense.
From: Eric on 31 Mar 2010 23:59
In article <no.email-621107.11471231032010(a)news1.chem.utoronto.ca>, David Stone <no.email(a)domain.invalid> wrote: > > On Wed, 31 Mar 2010, Eric wrote: > > > > > I am seeking a good looking print stylesheet, especially for A4 (or US > > > Letter) on a B&W printer. My screen stylesheet is a little too elaborate > > > to work well for printing from some browsers, and would waste ink on > > > colours and so on. > > Is this a personal user style sheet that you use to override settings > on other peoples pages, or a print style sheet for your site that will > affect how it looks when visitors print it out? That might make a > difference to the recommendations you get... Sorry for not explaining better. This is a print style sheet, initially for my blog site (which is where I experiment, since no-one much reads it). It is intended to make plain print out easier to read and basically cleaner. |