a web page question
by SaintDanBert from LinuxQuestions.org on (#4RKRD)
Not a Linux issue per se but I don't find an answer anywhere so I come here where I usually get answers or directions to answers.
Can someone help me learn how to control web page appearance when the page gets printed?
I know there are a boat load of issues, settings, and details, but I have web pages that change all the time and I want some reasonable consistency when the reader asks their browser to print the page.
One specific complaint involves matching the web page content with the number of output sheets/pages printed. This involves all four margins: top-bottom, and left-right.
DISCUSSION
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On Linux, the browser generates a PDF-based print job whenever CTRL-P or File->Print. That print job gets handed to CUPS. CUPS does meaningful things with that print job.
Is there anything that I can program into my web pages that will encourage the format details of the PDF output? Are there browser settings that I can encourage my readers to use that will give me any approximation to the printed-page consistency that I seek?
Thanks in advance,
~~~ 0;-Dan
Can someone help me learn how to control web page appearance when the page gets printed?
I know there are a boat load of issues, settings, and details, but I have web pages that change all the time and I want some reasonable consistency when the reader asks their browser to print the page.
One specific complaint involves matching the web page content with the number of output sheets/pages printed. This involves all four margins: top-bottom, and left-right.
DISCUSSION
==========
On Linux, the browser generates a PDF-based print job whenever CTRL-P or File->Print. That print job gets handed to CUPS. CUPS does meaningful things with that print job.
Is there anything that I can program into my web pages that will encourage the format details of the PDF output? Are there browser settings that I can encourage my readers to use that will give me any approximation to the printed-page consistency that I seek?
Thanks in advance,
~~~ 0;-Dan