220204 - Add preference to print black text on white background even from white-on-black window

Status: NEW

(SeaMonkey :: UI Design, enhancement)

Description

[Brian Harvey]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.0.2) Gecko/20030708
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.0.2) Gecko/20030708

Since my monitor is a CRT and I don't like headaches, I have my colors set
to white text on black background.  But I want pages printed on my printer
with black text on white background.  Netscape has this option (in the
printer properties dialog) but Mozilla doesn't.


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. In Preferences>Appearance>Colors, ask for white text on black background.
2. Open any web page.
3. Click print.

Actual Results:  
Lots of expensive toner used to print the black background.

Expected Results:  
Provide an option to ignore the screen colors, print text in black, on white
(inkless) background.

Comment 1

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

File > Page Setup, and turn off the "Print Background" checkbox.  The text color
will be automatically adjusted to be visible on the white background.

Comment 2

[Brian Harvey]

Sorry for the delayed response to your response to my problem...

I tried both setting and clearing the "print background" flag, and it
still prints white on black either way.  Note: the black is not coming
from the web page, it's coming from my preferences -- I want white on
black on my *screen*, but I want black on white on my *printer*.
I don't seem to be able to achieve this

Comment 3

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

Ah, I see.  You can achieve what you want with a user stylesheet (and an @media
print rule), but not via the preferences UI...

Comment 4

[Jesse Ruderman]

See also bug 164078, Mozilla prints white on black under "high contrast black"
accessibility settings.

Comment 5

[Serge Gautherie (:sgautherie)]

Filter "spam" on "guifeatures-nobody-20080610".