Thomas, Wednesday, February 6, 2013, 10:59:17 AM, you wrote:
TF> What if I want to print in white, because the TF> paper I use is black? Interesting. You have a VERY rare printer... <smile> But you also have a point. TF> No, I don't think the software should be second-guessing what colour I TF> would like better than the one coded into the HTML email, I think it TF> should print the colour exactly as in the email. (But then, I also TF> believe that emails should not be in white colour.) I was just hoping for something approaching HTML printing consistency, so that we could rely on things to print the same whether printed from a browser or an email program. All of the browsers I tried (Firefox, Chrome, IE and Opera) printed the white text as black and did not print the background colors (using the default settings.) A few years ago I found the setting to tell one of the browsers (probably Firefox, but I'm not positive) to print background colors and then it DID attempt to print the text in white -- but since my color printer has no white ink, that didn't work any better than printing white on white. For most of us, the print job needs to be rendered as a full page bitmap and then printed so that the "white" places are simply not printed at all. Some printers can probably handle that themselves, but I doubt it is a generally available feature. TF> If a "smart" printing module is introduced, please make it optional, TF> so I can turn it off. I agree with that completely. I never like being forced to do something the programmer's favorite way when alternate options are available. Since the current code obviously already exists, what I'm hoping for could be a new option (possibly even an optional add-on/plug-in?) -- Steven Vallière | tb 5.3.6.2 (BETA) | mailto:[email protected] -- "If you didn't write it down, then it didn't happen." -Larry Zana ________________________________________________________ Current beta is 5.3.6.2 | 'Using TBBETA' information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
