Text/Background Colors in Netscape

[Michelle M. Manke]

Rich,

When you find a page with white/light text, before you print it, go to
File, Page Setup, & click on Black Text (this is for Netscape; I don't
know about other browsers).  This solves the problem, but unfortunately
usually not until after the patron has already tried printing the (blank)
document with white text!  Good luck-

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Michelle Manke					mankmm at sncac.snc.edu
Reference and Information Services Librarian
St. Norbert College Library			(414) 403-3282
De Pere, WI 54115
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On Tue, 3 Dec 1996, Rich Harrington wrote:

> Hello all,
> 
>    Here's an interesting dillemma that I just had to deal with.  I seem to
> recall that some of it was discussed recently.
> 
>    We have two publically accessable Internet terminals, running Windows
> 3.11 with Direct Access for Windows as the shell, and Netscape locked up
> with IKIOSK.  One of the things I disabled with IKIOSK was the
> Options/General Preferences... menu.  After all, I didn't want anyone
> getting in there and changing the colors to black on black or something.  So
> it's permanently set to display the page the way it was written.
> 
>    Well, of course, someone getting info from the Sega site tried to print a
> page that was white text on a black background.  Netscape apparently then
> sends white text to the printer, which then prints a blank page.
> 
>    So, unless someone has a great idea I haven't thought of, my choices are
> either forcing Netscape to use my combination of background colors and text,
> and not have the pages show up as the author intended on the screen; or, to
> have the pages displayed as the author intended and say, "Sorry!" to anyone
> who wants to print (or, individually change the settings, print, then change
> them back for each patron who encounters this problem).
> 
>    I'm leading toward the former:  forcing Netscape to use my settings.
> But, I'm interested in hearing what you all think, or what you've done to
> get around this.  Or, if you have any philosophical thoughts on this.
> 
> Thanks,
> Rich
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> Rich Harrington
> Electronic Services Department
> James J. Hill Reference Library, St. Paul, MN USA
> rharrington at jjhill.org
> 
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