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Printing the Web (#899)
Posted: 1/19/2003; 12:09 PM by Terry Frazier
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"Consider how extraordinary paper is: lightweight and flexible, it supports thousands of typefaces, as well as black-and-white and color illustrations, and its high-resolution and high contrast facilitates reading." -- and so begins an excellent Boxes and Arrows article on one of the most important topics in publishing.

Print isn't going away -- not in our lifetime, if ever. But we are only beginning to grasp the importance of integrating the physical and digital forms of information, or understand how to do so. This article opens with some good background and references supporting this concept, then moves on to more practical aspects of the problems and current solutions for integrating the web and print -- in particular, the use of CSS and XSL-FO to avoid maintaining separate versions of data. Well-written and with excellent resources, this article is well worth reading.

Thanks to James Robertson at Column Two:

Printing the web. James Kalbach talks about designing websites that can be printed, either by making the one page work on paper, or by providing an alternate "printable version". Sounds pretty mundane, but there's a lot of good tips in this article. [Column Two]
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