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What would happen to carefully positioned divs?
Oh, and no comments that you shouldn't use pixels or absolute positioning please.
When I create a print media CSS file I leave my font units at pixels, and like you said, I have found that it prints ok (I test on both Mac and PC).
On your point about absolutely positioned div's - many people alter their print css file to match the size of an A4 page and adjust their margins accordingly. I suppose that it's a matter of printing your current version and see if there are any problems with your current layout.
On your point about absolutely positioned div's - many people alter their print css file to match the size of an A4 page and adjust their margins accordingly. I suppose that it's a matter of printing your current version and see if there are any problems with your current layout.
That's exactly what I've done - using Print Preview. In my print CSS file I've removed elements that don't have a purpose when printed out, such as large blank areas of colour, menu links, etc, by using {display:none;}. Then I moved the rest of the contents left to fit the A4 page. (What if someone uses a different paper size though? Such as Legal, or A4 Landscape?)
What if someone uses a different paper size though? Such as Legal, or A4 Landscape?
It would be very difficult (nigh on impossible) to try and cater for some people's unusual setup. I'm not sure about the States, but certainly in Europe the vast majority of desktop printers default to A4 portrait.
