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On IE 8 and Firefox (3.6 and 4), if you go to Print Preview, you adjust the Print Scale by a a percentage or use Shrink to Fit. Does CSS have a property like scale:50%; or something to adjust the print scale?

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There is Zoom:


And moz/webkit-transform:


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oddly enough, zoom works differently on IE 8. in IE 7 it works the way I want it to: makes everything inside the body larger or smaller. in IE 8 it expands or contracts the body itself by whatever percentage you pick. I'm not sure which implementation is the bug. –  dotnetN00b Apr 19 '11 at 18:43
I'll accept this as an answer, because it works on IE7. –  dotnetN00b Apr 19 '11 at 21:09
Heads up that CSS combined with printing has always been buggy in most versions of IE. –  DA. Apr 19 '11 at 21:10
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Since zoom or -ms-zoom doesn't work the way I expected it to on IE8, I ended up fiddling with the font-size and tr sizes. Hopefully MS makes a zoom that works like the Print Scale/Size functionality in the Print window from the browser.

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