I think that you've definitely increased your knowledge.
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I think that you've definitely increased your knowledge.
You might also consider that what you want may not always be desirable, either.
For example, white text on a dark background, prints badly on a printer.
On some sites a technique using CSS media queries is used to choose print-friendly colours and layouts, so the printed page will be intentionally different to what is shown in a browser.
Not XWD365P but XDPX has a Page Layout using standard page formats (A4, letter) that act as an on-line PDF.
It handling links and probably most of the web features the whole package already had: http://www.xara.com/uk/designer-pro/features/ and example: http://xaragroup.magix.net/designer-pro/notes/.
Try the trial,Quote:
Uniquely Designer Pro can publish your multi-page print document on the web as a single scrollable document - it's easy to view, totally WYSIWYG, and perfect for fast skimming and browsing of long documents or sharing your documents with others, without the bother of PDF. Example web document.
Acorn
I'm a bit confused by what your last post was trying to say, Acorn.
The OP wanted the website produced by Xara software to print "correctly", but the print of their Xara site didn't match the online view.
I'm not sure what your last post suggests about that.
@acorn - that sounds like one way to get certain pages up in a print friendly format, assuming you can integrate into a 'normal' website rather than have one that is entirely baseed on a print document?
publish your multi-page print document on the web as a single scrollable document
That's just a supersite, isn't it?
I'm not getting the point here.
an alternative to PDF as in that act as an on-line PDF
how practical that is I can't say - but it is all extra knowledge...
Yes, but what does that actually mean?
I took it to mean that you design as though it was a paper document and it publishes as HTML keeping the layout exactly, so as far as I can see that's nothing new at all.
The OP was concerned about the print result from the web page, so I don't see anything at all that has any effect on this. I don't think the reference to PDF means that the page prints as though it was a PDF, I think it's about the design process which is akin to a PDF or print document.
Well, the OP hasn't offered up a website for our consideration.
The Post Title is "Designing for Print" so generating HTML that renders as A4 pages seems to fit the remit.
For the Xara example, had Xara actually fitted their pages as A4 then the print aspect would be accurate to the web page presentation.
Acorn