Dreamweaver - Forcing browsers to print backgrounds

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Forcing browsers to print backgrounds

poetdad

2005-06-29, 8:03 pm

How can I use DW/hmtl to force browsers to print table and layer background colours?

Thanks.

G

Steve Grosz

2005-06-29, 8:03 pm

As far as I know, you can't. Besides, why would you want to? I'd be
upset if I HAD to print your backgrounds every time...

poetdad wrote:
> How can I use DW/hmtl to force browsers to print table and layer background colours?
>
> Thanks.
>
> G

E. T. Culling

2005-06-29, 8:03 pm

You, as the browser, decide to print or not to print the backgrounds. You
should not force that on someone.
ETC
"Steve Grosz" <boise_bound@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> As far as I know, you can't. Besides, why would you want to? I'd be
> upset if I HAD to print your backgrounds every time...
>
> poetdad wrote:

poetdad

2005-06-29, 8:03 pm

Good point. But the page looks like a ghost when printed otherwise.

Thanks though.

G

Gary White

2005-06-29, 8:03 pm

poetdad wrote:

>How can I use DW/hmtl to force browsers to print table and layer
>background colours?

You have to go to the computer where the file is being printed and
change the preferences for that browser. Other than that, you cannot.

Gary

mzanime.com

2005-06-29, 8:03 pm

My advice to you is to make a print style sheet. This way your page will look
"reasonably okay" when printed but look the way it was intended in a browser
window. Theres no real way to "force" browsers to print backgrounds if the user
has this option turned off.

But atleast with a print style sheet you can make the ghost look go away, for
example:

/* normal style sheet */
body { font-color:white; }

/* style sheet which is only seen when printed */
@media print {
body { font-color:black; }
}

P@tty Ayers

2005-06-30, 7:31 pm

> My advice to you is to make a print style sheet. This way your page will
> look
> "reasonably okay" when printed but look the way it was intended in a
> browser
> window.

Hopefully you understand that - and if it's your client who thinks that
hitting "Print" should automatically print something on an 8 1/2" x 11"
sheet of paper which miraculously looks just like a display on a computer
screen, he needs to be educated. The web and print are two completely
different things.

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poetdad

2005-06-30, 7:31 pm

Yes, it's my boss who wants it to print. Now I have ammo to say it why can't. Thanks, everyone. I'm not sure what happened to the "paperless office" concept of days gone by...

G

P@tty Ayers

2005-06-30, 7:42 pm

"poetdad" <webforumsuser@macromedia.com> wrote in message
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> Yes, it's my boss who wants it to print. Now I have ammo to say it why
> can't. Thanks, everyone. I'm not sure what happened to the "paperless
> office" concept of days gone by...

But I would tell him, it can print, but it will print in a way that's useful
on paper. It won't print like an artistic representation of a digital
display on a computer.

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