On Tuesday, September 28, 2004, Jeremy Hughes sent forth: >C. A. Niemiec (27/9/04 2:05 pm) said: > >>Preference for a different font size just for printing. My screen-reading >>point size produces way too many pages as printed. No need for a button, >>but a preference to save the hassle of fiddling with the preferences when >>all I want to do is print-this-now-and-forget-about-it. > >Why not just set the scale to 90% or less in the Page Setup dialog? This >is what I do. > >(It doesn't affect the print scale in other applications.) > >Jeremy > >
Playing with percentage reduction (or magnification) involves too much guesswork. Using a font and size that you know works guarantees output consistency. If the display font ever changes, which DOES happen in PowerMail, your settings would be off. An example is the previous message from Mark Smith. The character set in his email is charset=ISO-2022-JP, which I assumed caused the display font to change in my window from Monaco 9 (unsmoothed) to what looks like Monaco 8 or 9 (smoothed). The resulting printed copy would be even smaller with a 90% scale as you advocate. In short, it reduces the legibility of the overall document in a way that font changes don't. Remember that in a font dialogue box, you have control of both font AND size. One of the best examples of useful font &size control was in an old terminal application, PacerTerm. The writers realized that screen font/size settings are not necessarily good print settings. -- Tim Lapin [EMAIL PROTECTED] G4/AGP/400 OS 10.3.5 PowerMail 5.0.1 384 MB RAM 40+10 GB HDs
