amateur question

J. Landman Gay jacque at hyperactivesw.com
Tue Aug 23 23:59:47 EDT 2005


Chipp Walters wrote:
> 
> 
> Bill wrote:
> 
>> I bugzilla-ed this and the answer was that even though the grey 
>> background
>> is only visible when printing and decidedly not WYSIWYG it is still a
>> feature. I never understood why this invisible grey background could be a
>> feature.
> 
> 
> It's because you can use it to your advantage. Say you want to print 
> text on a yellow backgroung. Then just set the backColor of the card you 
> want to print to yellow, and then you're printing on a yellow 
> background. If you want your background white, then set the backColor to 
> white.

Right, but one would think that the default printing backcolor would be 
the same as the one you see on screen. Seems kind of odd that it isn't.

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