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Subject:Line breaks - HTML doc with printer-friendly PDF? From:"Tom Maas" <tommaas -at- hotmail -dot- com> To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Wed, 20 Jun 2001 14:50:49
Can any of you technical writers relate to this situation? Perhaps you can
help me...
When I left my CAD job and joined the company's technical writing ranks
about six months ago I learned that every HTML technical document (mostly
text and tables) published here also has a companion PDF document used
solely for printing.
My question right away was, why do we need this redundancy?
The answer: It's difficult to get an HTML page to look the way you want it
to look when it comes out of the printer without "locking down" the design
in a static PDF file.
I'd like to challenge this philosophy. My first HTML hurdle is to attempt
to control where the printer breaks the text.
My question for this discussion board:
What is your preferred way to control where the line breaks happen when
printing an HTML document?
1. Javascript (not supported on some browsers)?
2. Page length HTML table rows?
3. Multiple HTML files - one for every page?
4. New options in latest HTML?
4. Stay with PDF and live with the redundancy?
Any suggestions or success stories will be appreciated!
Tom Maas
tommaas -at- hotmail -dot- com
Grand Rapids, MI
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