Normally, I don't have a problem creating a print stylesheet. It's rather
easy to just remove the images and "display:none" to stuff that's not
important so you just get the text. I'm also aware that, under normal
circumstances, you should really try to avoid putting in images and such so
you don't waste the end-user's ink when printing out important papers that
they want.
However, *this* client wants the printed version of his pages to look
exactly like the website - images and all. (I know, I'm sure we've all had
this problem before.) I've already tried to convince him otherwise - but
they won't have it.
So, I'm left with trying to redeign the site for print, so it looks like the
website online.
What I was wondering was this:
Is there any way, using CSS, that I could just have a line in there that
shrinks the page to print size? Instead of going through my stylesheet and
changing the sizes and such to fit the printed page, could I not somehow
just shrink it *all* to 80% of the size or something? Using this train of
thought, I experimented and put this in my print stylesheet:
* { width:80%; height: 80%}
You know, just to try it an see what would happen (I didn't really expect it
to work, but one can hope!) - and everything was *enlarged* by 80%. So I
was wondering if anyone had any alternate suggestions or ideas that wouldn't
require me to basically go in and redesign the site for print.
Truly, I hate doing this - I know it's not nice to waste the end-user's ink,
and it's just so...agh! - but the client is paying me to do this, so I bow
to the paycheck.
I'd appreciate any help!
~Shelly
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