[SLL] (OT) print font sizes with Firefox.

[Keith Daniels]

I use Opera for my general surfing and printing and FireFox for web page development so I don't do 
much printing with FireFox.

In the case of Opera I built a "print" css file that sets the font type & size and removes sidebars 
and images from the pages -- you can get as exotic as you want... :-)

I think you can do the same with FireFox, if not installing some of the CSS extensions should give 
you full control of the page.

-Keith

Jesse Gordon wrote:
> One may be able to click file -> print preview then set the zoom to a 
> larger
> size to print bigger letters on the paper.
> 
> This may cause images to get cut off on the right side of the paper, but I
> think it might enlarge and wrap the text to some degree. Experimentation
> would have to be performed, but I think this might work.
> 
> -Jesse
> 
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Bill Campbell" <bill at celestial.com>
> To: <linux-list at ssc.com>
> Sent: Tuesday, August 29, 2006 2:54 PM
> Subject: Re: [SLL] (OT) print font sizes with Firefox.
> 
> 
>> On Tue, Aug 29, 2006, johnbaxterlists at mac.com wrote:
>>>
>>> On Aug 29, 2006, at 2:18 PM, Bill Campbell wrote:
>>>
>>>> Is there any way to control font sizes when printing from Firefox?
>>>> I've
>>>> looked through the normal configuration menus (actually Preferences on
>>>> OS X), but don't see anything specific to printing.
>>>>
>>>> My guess is that this is largely determined by the page format so
>>>> isn't
>>>> easy to control.
>>>
>>> The only thing I see is the Scale box in the Page Setup dialog (also
>>> speaking of Mac OS X).  That is a rather blunt tool.
>>
>> Rather blunt -- and the person asking about this is running Firefox under
>> the Microsoft Virus, Windows where the tools are only sharp on the side
>> facing the user.
>>
>>> Of course, you can make the print really small by printing 16 pages
>>> (or some sensible smaller number) per side (at least I can on my
>>> printer), but that's not what you want either.
>>
>> Quite the opposite.  We're looking for large fonts for old fart's eyes,
>> not
>> smaller ones.
>>
>> Bill
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