Re: [PLUG] Web Pages Look Different on Screen and Printed. Why?

[Bill East via plug <plug@lists.phillylinux.org>]

You're not going to like this... but "it's a feature, not a bug."

How wide is your browser window? How big is your screen? Vertical or horizontal? Where are the "page breaks" on a scrolling browser screen? Well-written HTML with good CSS (which is slightly more common than rational and polite discourse on the Internet) adapts to whatever format you want to display it on. So you would expect that what looks good on your screen might look terrible on paper, especially if it's a graphics-heavy layout that will drain your ink cartridges dry. This actually was one of the advertised benefits of PDFs - what you saw on the screen would be exactly what got printed on the paper.

That said, you do always have the option of a quick screen print if you want to show exactly what you are seeing on-screen.

On Thu, Feb 16, 2023 at 9:55 PM Casey Bralla via plug <plug@lists.phillylinux.org> wrote:

This has been an growing annoyance for me.

I see a web page and try to print it, but the printed output often is
wildly different from what I see on the screen.  I've read that there is
a separate CSS for printing, but I don't understand why.

Why doesn't a browser render the print output the same way it renders
the screen output?  The dimensions of the paper and the screen may be
different, but those differences are trivial compared to the gawd-awful
print output of some web pages.

What the heck is going on here?

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