"Your Name Here" <jim@agekko.com> wrote in message
news:uAgB7.578130$Lw3.35444507@news2.aus1.giganews.com...
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> Could anyone point me to a good sourcce of information on formatting text
> for printing out?
>

What exactly you want to know?
Some things I do when I format for print:
- displaying additional URLs that weren't visible on screen, like
Email-Adresses or the URL of the current page
- trying to make links look more like normal text, since there
"clickability" is reduced to zero on paper anyway
- trying to fiddle around much less with fonts, i.e. it's more common I
don't switch to sans-serif and leave it at the default (serif in many
popular browsers)
- taking away some colors/ background-colors
- in general, not using any pixel values, absolute positioning, etc.
- when it's worth the time, optimizing page breaks, but this seems to lack
support currently even in browser supporting the CSS print media good
otherwise
- sometimes, creating a special (on screen invisible) "cover" page for the
print out, with additional illustration; only when I know the client
definitely wants to print this and give it on to customers as brochure

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Philipp Lenssen
M+R Infosysteme
http://www.mrinfo.de