330670 - Print output should be prettier

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 288471

(Thunderbird :: General, enhancement)

Description

[rabbitambulance]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; de; rv:1.8) Gecko/20051111 Firefox/1.5
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; de; rv:1.8) Gecko/20051111 Firefox/1.5

I think the printing output of TBird doesn't look very nice and doesn't do too good a job of conveying the most important information quickly. Outlook's printing, for example, is better in this regard.

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1

[Jo Hermans]

Reporter, that's very vague. Don't you have a better description what you want ? Maybe bug 278114 ?

Comment 2

[rabbitambulance]

It's vague since I am not a designer, and I don't mean bug 278114 (although that request is reasonable, too). Right now, Tbird just spews all the information on the page in a not-too-pretty-or-readable fashion, and I think this could be improved, for example by making the Subject more prominent on the page; basically the way the information is displayed on the screen is very nicely readable, why doesn't the printing template look like that?

Comment 3

[M]

Could this bug be split into 2 separate bugs?

1. Documentation:
document how to customize userContent.css for printing, and which selectors are relevant. While trying to customize headers today, I had a very hard time finding that these were what I needed to change in userContent.css:

  @media print {
    .header-part1 {}
    .header-part2 {}
    .header-part3 {}
    .headerdisplayname {}
  }

2. Add more specific classes for mail headers:
The HTML produced for printing does not allow CSS differentiation of different headers (From, To, Subject, etc.). The structure of this temporary HTML could be improved so that userContent.css could have better control.