[thelist] Printing a CSS background color

Christian Heilmann codepo8 at gmail.com
Fri Sep 23 10:13:44 CDT 2005


> >Generally its a good idea as users dont want to waste toner on
> >background colours/imagery, all you really want from a printout is the
> >information - hence print stylesheets that remove headers/footer and
> >navigation.
>
>
> I think in general it is good to avoid printing out backgrounds -- but it
> depends on the goals of the project/client... this project was more so
> intended to emulate a print brochure, but we wanted to avoid having 50 (and
> growing) different Quark documents to maintain.
>
> The background I was trying to print was for a one line div.  But I agree,
> if I go to a website with a blue background and white text, I don't care to
> print that.

I'd say PDF is a better option then, as you can generate them on the
fly via XSL-FO much like you can generate web sites.

You can create a browsable web version, but for print, PDF wins.


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