Subject: Re: commit: Complete Dom's page colour work.
From: Martin Sevior (msevior@mccubbin.ph.unimelb.edu.au)
Date: Sun Mar 25 2001 - 03:13:44 CST
On Sun, 25 Mar 2001, Vlad Harchev wrote:
> On Sun, 25 Mar 2001, Martin Sevior wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> What I'm dreaming about now is ability to set page color *on display* only
> (not for printed version). I hate white page color - it hurts eyes and burns
> monitor, but I don't want the sheets I'm printing on be filled with grey or
> something like it (it's the way I intrepret this page colour commit).
>
> Could you guys add ability to set page color on screen? Of course the
> setting should be written to preferences file, and not saved with doc. Just
> use that color instead of white when no page/sheet color was specified by the
> user.
>
> Word95 has this option and I used it when I was using Word..
>
I see your point. One way to do this is to add an "Always Print
White Background" option on either the preferences or print dialog. If
activated it would override the background-color setting.
Now I think about it I don't think the printing code honours the
background-color property. I'll check this right away.
Cheers
Martin
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