Re: Browser Printing

[Rich Duzenbury <rduz-midrange@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, 2005-10-27 at 10:38 -0700, Nathan Andelin wrote:
> My question is a spin-off from the discussion about
> "Best document formatting language".
> 
> It seems to me that HTML is great for portrait and
> landscape "layout" but browsers have inadequate
> support for printer page setup.

PDF primarily exists for folks that want to control page layout.  HTML
(or is it the browser?) is bad at this.  Where necessary, I tend to
supply data to users in both formats.  If you want to see it
interactively, look at the web page.  Then, click the PDF link to print
it when you want a nice hardcopy.

Also, PDF is good at printing a range of pages.  HTML isn't.

http://tldp.org/docs.html#howto is an example of a site that provides
the same data in many formats. 

Regards,
Rich