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From: ben morrison
Date: May 19, 2005 7:16AM

I've been using print stylesheets for a year now but have come to the
conclusion that maybe more can be done with them for example:

I use relative sizing within my stylesheets by setting the body to
font-size:76% and then setting everything in ems - p { font-size:1em;}
etc.

In my print stylesheet I have been using p { font-size:12pt }.

But if the end-user needs large font settings on screen then surely
they would also need large print settings.

First thoughts are that a link would be needed to choose print sizes
(which we could save in a cookie) and ideally just change the body
value for ease of use.

Any ideas/thoughts much appreciated. Browsers seem to ignore their own
builtin increased/decreased text-size values when going to print.

ben