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  Re: Blind to icons
 
(...) White text in graphics is ok, but white fonts are unprintable, and that irritates some people alot. KL (25 years ago, 8-Nov-99, to lugnet.admin.general)
 
  White text on webpages considered harmful or safe? (was: Re: Blind to icons)
 
(...) Is white text always unprintable? Whenever I print a page with text in a table with its BGCOLOR set, it comes out great. Workie: <TABLE ... BGCOLOR="#000000"><TR><TD> <FONT COLOR="#FFFFFF">foo foo foo</FONT> </TD></TR></TABLE> No workie: (...) (25 years ago, 8-Nov-99, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.publish)
 
  Re: White text on webpages considered harmful or safe? (was: Re: Blind to icons)
 
(...) Either will work if you set your printer preferences to "black and white". You may have to do this through your browser and/or your dos/windows printer settings (25 years ago, 8-Nov-99, to lugnet.publish)
 
  Re: White text on webpages considered harmful or safe? (was: Re: Blind to icons)
 
(...) I was thinking of the body bgcolor. I haddn't thought of the table bgcolor situation. KL (25 years ago, 8-Nov-99, to lugnet.publish)
 
  Re: White text on webpages considered harmful or safe? (was: Re: Blind to icons)
 
(...) I'm pretty sure anyone who prints out a web page deserves to be irritated. At a place I used to work, it was very common for the management types to hand you a stack of paper, saying "I came across this web site I thought you should see." (...) (25 years ago, 13-Nov-99, to lugnet.publish)

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