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

[Walt Mankowski via plug <plug@lists.phillylinux.org>]

Right, but the problem here isn't really printers, it's rendering the
pages. The same pages Casey's having trouble printing won't look as
PDFs, either.

On Fri, Mar 10, 2023 at 11:06:05PM -0500, Lynn Bradshaw via plug wrote:
> To get the initial matter out of the way, printers are basically like
> Warhammer 40K Chaos dæmon engines and they seem to have a will of their own
> entirely, and said will doesn't often benefit the user.
> 
> What I will add is that printers typically understand PostScript and/or PDF
> files and will obey instructions in these Turing-complete languages.
> Browser responsivity is out the window. These languages will just make
> letter paper printouts look nice (maybe, hopefully). Maybe AI will kick in
> at some point to buck the trend but it isn't today.
> 
> 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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