
In case if you don't have one, download some PDF files from Google and try printing them.Ī test page for the printer is just an ordinary printing paper used to test the efficiency of any printer. If you are confused about what to print on a test paper, open up any document or picture from your computer and print it. To check the quality of print and the printing paper used, a test page is printed.
Works pretty well for me, if I will stumble over some drawbacks, I will come back and notate that as well.The test page is generally printed for the maintenance of printers and their ink cartridges. ) will work as normally, so you are able to check your DOM, see the boxes, change CSS on the fly and just reload your page then. All the tools you normally use (Firefox Firebug, Chrome Developer Tools, Opera DragonFly. Notice the switch in the second and third line for media="print|screen".Īs the result, you are now able to call your main HTML file, and see how it will look if you print it out under normal conditions. appropriate only for print (Stylesheet: print.css)ĭuring test of the print-out of your web page, switch the stylesheets in your main HTML file:.
appropriate only for screen (Stylesheet: screen.css). appropriate for screen and print (Stylesheet: application.css). Isolate all rules in your stylesheets that are Use in the main HTML file the following directives for stylesheets: I have found a different solution to my problem inspired by Using Rails 3.1 assets pipeline to conditionally use certain css. Is there any browser or combination of browser, plugin and process available to get similar results? If you have ideas how to change the organizations of the files, with the most minimal changes to get the wished result, you are welcome. Change the CSS on the fly, reload the page, and look at the result and the DOM again. Use the available tools like Firebug (Firefox) or Dragonfly (Opera) to inspect the DOM and the current styles. What I would like to do (but was not able to do it with any browser): Try to find the rules that behave wrong. Create the different style for screen and print. What I usually has to do are the following steps: This works quite well, but the test is really difficult. I have used (as usual) print rules to specify how the print of a web page should be different to the online version.