Bj, Thanks for the answer. I wasn't clear enough. It is not the window size, it is the content size that I am concerned about.
The pages are designed and made on Serif PP80pdf; it is a nice program for putting a page together without disturbing the mental dust too much. It's great advantage is the easy adjustment of all the ingredients. (Of course it is WYSIWYG) It publishes both html and pdf from the same worked page which is also set up for print (though Quark it ain't). Its default page size is A4. By designing on an A5 page the pdf version comes out a nice comfortable screen size (at acrobat 100%), and it prints at A5. What I cannot understand is why the html content opens at such a large size. In my simple way I would have thought that an html translation of an A5 designed area would give a page size roughly equivalent to A5 and be comfortable contained in the middle range of screen sizes. I have already designed the content to appear at 12pt and 14pt at A5 page size, so that is pretty standard, even a bit large, and those who like it large would be happy. It does begin to look as though the Serif program is not competent at html, and that I will have to rewrite 90 plus pages, as well as fitting it all into a fairly complex site folder (preferably by the weekend which is already put aside for a re-install of Windows). Perhaps it is fortunate that I don't feel pain :-( - oh that it were true. Joseph Chacha Joe For a site of laughs and a FREE ezine: www.smilepoetryweekly.com From: Bj <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, October 19, 2003 5:43 PM Subject: [wdvltalk] Re: target page size > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Joseph Harris" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > I have an immediate problem with the size a target > > page is making...I designed the pages as A5 size > > to fit nicely into your average window! > > My screen is set to 1024 x 768 resolution and even in full screen your pages > are coming out too long for it (have to scroll down) so you got more than a > bit wrong... > > It's next to impossible to make a page come out exactly how you want it on > the viewer's computer simply because every viewer and their computer are > different. > > To make your page come out shorter you can either use less text or try to > use a smaller font, but if you mess with the font size too much you will > come up against viewers who rather like their fonts large and readable. > > You may also be confusing "page size" (which is dependent on a combination > of how much content you have, the viewer's screen resolution and how their > browser renders your content), and "window size". You can try to control > the size that your popup window opens to, assuming the viewer's browser even > allows it to open, by using Javascript's window.open() command to open the > window, assuming the viewer's browser understands JavaScript and has it > enabled, but your code just uses a href target=_blank and with that, the new > window will open to whatever is the current default on the viewer's browser, > you have no control at all over the size it will open or whether it opens as > a smaller window or full screen. > > Smile :-) > > Bj ____ � The WDVL Discussion List from WDVL.COM � ____ To Join wdvltalk, Send An Email To: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Send Your Posts To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To set a personal password send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the words: "set WDVLTALK pw=yourpassword" in the body of the email. To change subscription settings to the wdvltalk digest version: http://wdvl.internet.com/WDVL/Forum/#sub ________________ http://www.wdvl.com _______________________ You are currently subscribed to wdvltalk as: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
