[Xprint] Re: Monospaced font in Thunderbird/Mozilla mail

[Jay Smith]

THANK YOU!

I have now done this and tested.... and it works!

The funny thing is that I thought I would combine it with the CSS content 
at http://www.jw-stumpel.nl/stestu.html (Section 9 - printing) but then I 
realized that this was YOU and that you apparently had since updated that 
page with this new information.

Anyway, I used your entire CSS "@media print" chunk and everything works.

Previously I had used your information to move aside the xprint font 
directory to solve the missing header problem.

I am running Mozilla 1.7.2 on linux Red Hat 8.

An important note for your web page: on Mozilla 1.7.2 as it installs on Red 
Hat 8, there is no userContent-example.css file in the chrome directory. 
One must make the file from scratch.

I really, really, really appreciate the work you have put into this.  If 
you further update any of this information, I would very much like to be on 
your notification list -- if you have one.  It seems like you are the only 
person on the planet that understands that there is a problem here!

Now only one problem remains (for me) and I cannot *any* attention on the 
mozilla mail newsgroup about it:  When printing emails (and in the print 
preview), the "To:" message header is missing.  The "To:" header is, of 
course, present on screen when viewing the message, but it disappears when 
printing (Subject, From, and Date are present).  Oh, also, when forwarding 
a message, the Date is missing from the Forward header chunk.  Argh!  Any 
ideas of resources on these?  As I said, repeated attempts on the newsgroup 
got nothing.

Jay



Jan Willem Stumpel said the following on 09/19/2004 06:09 AM:
> It seems that the file userContent.css can also be used to
> obtain monospaced printout of mail messages from Mozilla and
> derivatives, making the print preview agree with the actual printout.
> 
> Inside the @media print selector you just add
> 
>        .moz-text-plain {
>         font-family: 'Courier New',courier,monospace !important;
>     }
> 
> Other hints relating to the appearance of mail (which is the
> printed appearance if the @media print selector is used) can
> possibly be found in
> 
> http://lxr.mozilla.org/mozilla1.7/source/themes/modern/messenger/
> 
> So far, I tested only .moz-text-plain (which is mentioned in the
> messageBody.css file). It works within userContent.css, provided
> the !important directive is used.
> 
> Regards, Jan
> 

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