Sandals and ponytail set cramp Linux (ZDNet) [LWN.net]

Sandals and ponytail set cramp Linux (ZDNet)

Posted Mar 28, 2006 20:29 UTC (Tue) by accensi (guest, #11754)
Parent article: Sandals and ponytail set cramp Linux (ZDNet)

One point that seems to be critical is good handling of print copies of emails htmal pages, etc. In enterprise use you do need to use them and normally they are very bad. Probably Linux hackers can survive with the horrible looking, because they do not use, or they can hack a special layout with a2ps.

Try for instance print an email with Kmail or a HTML page with Firefox were you have changed font size. Compare with printing from Outlook or IE. I know very well because I am one of a few using Linux in a 1500 people company.

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Sandals and ponytail set cramp Linux (ZDNet)

Posted Mar 29, 2006 14:42 UTC (Wed) by MortFurd (guest, #9389) [Link]

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Try for instance print an email with Kmail or a HTML page with Firefox were you have changed font size. Compare with printing from Outlook or IE. I know very well because I am one of a few using Linux in a 1500 people company.

***Snork.

IE SUCKS at printout, to the point that everyone I know usually copies and pastes into Word before printing. IE butchers page formatting when printing HTML direct from the internet.

I can't tell you how well Firefox or Kmail handle HTML. I don't normally print stright from the internet (most stuff can be used just fine when saved as an electronic copy) and I don't use Kmail.

Mozilla seems to have done well enough printing straight from the web on those few (long ago) cases where I needed to print something.