X-Original-To: pgsql-www-postgresql.org@localhost.postgresql.org Received: from localhost (neptune.hub.org [200.46.204.2]) by svr1.postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2A16AD1B43B for ; Sat, 29 Nov 2003 19:35:06 +0000 (GMT) Received: from svr1.postgresql.org ([200.46.204.71]) by localhost (neptune.hub.org [200.46.204.2]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 49454-05 for ; Sat, 29 Nov 2003 15:34:41 -0400 (AST) Received: from smtp.covadmail.net (mx05.covadmail.net [63.65.120.65]) by svr1.postgresql.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 72EFFD1B44B for ; Sat, 29 Nov 2003 15:34:33 -0400 (AST) Received: (covad.net 1383 invoked from network); 29 Nov 2003 19:34:34 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO ?192.168.0.134?) (hotzoco@Covad.net@68.164.128.110) by sun-qmail08 with SMTP; 29 Nov 2003 19:34:34 -0000 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Sender: hotzoco@Covad.net@pop3.covad.net Message-Id: In-Reply-To: References: Date: Sat, 29 Nov 2003 02:40:39 -0800 To: Michael Glaesemann From: "Henry B. Hotz" Subject: Re: [DOCS] 7.4 official docs : Fonts? Cc: pgsql-www@postgresql.org, pgsql-docs@postgresql.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at postgresql.org X-Archive-Number: 200312/5 X-Sequence-Number: 3065 At 7:30 PM +0900 11/28/03, Michael Glaesemann wrote: >On Friday, November 28, 2003, at 05:33 PM, Henry B. Hotz wrote: > >>Color works well on-screen with html. Small-point-size italics are >>hard to read on-screen, agreed. >> >>Italics work well on B&W printout with PDF. (In general. I'm not >>looking at the specific example.) >> >>Can you map things somehow to get the best of both worlds? > >If you're talking about printing from the browser, you can have >separate style sheets with different media targets, so >media="screen" could have the color, while media="print" could have >italics. It's really flexible. At work I have a form letter that's >generated on screen, and includes all of the navigation for moving >around the site. When you print the page, the media="print" style >sheet omits the navigation, restyles the page with different fonts >and sizes, and adds the number we want to fax it to (Yes, I know. We >still use fax for a large part of our interoffice correspondence. >I'm trying to move us away from that, but it's a hard slog.) > >As for the PDF docs, they're formatting is indeed different. I >assume that the SGML to PDF path is different from the SGML to HTML >path (which is of course one of the benefits of using SGML). > >Is this what you mean? Pretty much, yes. I don't care much about printing html. If I want to print I figure I'm better off getting a PDF. I just don't want to have to use a color printer. -- The opinions expressed in this message are mine, not those of Caltech, JPL, NASA, or the US Government. Henry.B.Hotz@jpl.nasa.gov, or hbhotz@oxy.edu