[WEB4LIB] Navigator vs IE printing

[Bob Rasmussen]

On Thu, 10 Feb 2000, Randy Souther wrote:

> Interestingly, I think the printing features on IE 4.5 for the Macintosh beat
> anything else. In the print dialog box you can check off options to print or
> not print backgrounds, images, headers & footers; and more significantly, to
> "shrink pages to fit."  Whenever we have a patron who can't print out a page
> due to its dimensions, IE 4.5 on the Mac always does it perfectly where IE 5
> on the PC and Navigator on either platform fail.

I wonder if the Mac version is simply taking advantage of a capability that is
generally in PostScript printers, and generally NOT in non-PS printers (as
you're like to have on your Windows machines)...?

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