news.frontiernet.net said:
You have NO CONTROL over which browser your banker will use,
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As usual, comprehensive quoting indicates lack of comprehensive
reading. The question described:
There's no need for any banker to use any browser for that.
Use a word processor and submit it on paper or in PDF format. That
way yu can count on the fonts and font sizes being what YOU want.
Word processors normally produce text in their proprietary formats,
_not_ in PDF format. Anyway, what you describe is an attempt to fight
against the strengths of the Web and of the HTML format.
The real issue, which you have completely missed, was how to author in
HTML _and_ have the document formatted nicely on paper. If the paper
format is the only one in which the document is really needed, I would
vote for MS Word. It _is_ a useful program, though partly poorly
documented and with lots of irritating features. If the document should
also be available in cross-platform format, maybe for use on the Web or
in an intranet, then HTML format might be the best master format.
Unfortunately the method of using CSS is still rather limited in that
respect, though, depending on the nature of the document, it might work
reasonably, if the page is printed Opera or Mozilla. The specifically
page-oriented features of CSS work rather poorly at present, but for a
business plan, it would probably be sufficient to create an edited copy
of the page with "forced" page breaks (e.g. with page-break-before:
always) using CSS. And this might mean that the author needs to work on
that copy iteratively, using the Print Preview function of the browser
to decide on the page breaks. It's a bit dull work, but probably
tolerable. And setting fonts and font sizes in CSS works just fine for
the purpose.