> 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?) There's too small a niche for such an uncommon task so TB guys will definitely not implement this. The polygraphy folk who do this on a regular basis print everything as pictures - which is my suggested way for you as well. -- Best regards, Ivan mailto:v...@mail.mipt.ru 5.3.6.0 (Christmas Edition) on Windows XP ________________________________________________________ Current beta is 5.3.6.2 | 'Using TBBETA' information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
