- From: Patrick H. Lauke via GitHub <sysbot+gh@w3.org>
- Date: Tue, 15 Nov 2016 11:43:16 +0000
- To: public-css-archive@w3.org
@nicksherman > even if you have a print-specific stylesheet with sizes set in “absolute” units like inches, almost all print output that is initiated in a browser will send something off to the printer that doesn’t match the specified sizing, instead utilizing CSS pixel sizing logic, usually in unpredictable ways. related, i admittedly didn't do extensive testing, but when i last looked at this, the combination of browser/printer driver/printer seem to try to get it right to an extent (there's probably further fudging cause by printer settings involved here). using http://codepen.io/patrickhlauke/full/zqabMR/ and printing it out (I believe I tried only in Chrome at the time, admittedly) I get the below (where 72pt in CSS come...close-ish to a physical 1in on paper) >  -- GitHub Notification of comment by patrickhlauke Please view or discuss this issue at https://github.com/w3c/csswg-drafts/issues/614#issuecomment-260620057 using your GitHub account
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