Sanjay B (nospam@nospam.com) on 1/11/12 wrote:
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>Charles wrote:
>> Hopefully, Microsoft can use some of their Office
>> developers to make a web browser that can print web pages
>> in a sensible manner. Right now, the only options IE
>> gives you are shrinking the text to an unreadably small
>> size or chopping off the right side of the text.
>
>I'd like to be able to tell you that this feature is already in some browser or
>plug-in, thereby proving Brett's original point. Unfortunately, I've also had this
>same problem with certain web sites, such as realworldtech.com. As far as I know,
>there is no way to make IE or Firefox wrap text at the edge of a printed page.
>You can "shrink to fit page width" but that miniaturizes the text size on many web
>sites. If anyone knows a solution to this problem, I'd certainly like to hear it.

Safari 5.1.2 generally treats web page printing as a paper width sized window on web, scaling to fit just like you dragged your window to match the paper width. This is what you want 99% of the time, the other 1% I print in landscape mode.

I use zoom in and zoom out to set text to a readable size, this solves the miniaturized text problem, and printing respects my zoom setting.

Now if only the occasional forced refresh of all windows respected my zoom instead of a broken half resetting of zoom.

I found an article that mostly confirms my quote:
http://www.johndcook.com/blog/2011/06/01/clutter-discoverability/