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I just updated to 0.8.4 and noticed a few strange things. I copied over everything and it ran the upgrade script just fine. Then I placed my custom theme back in the directory and my web site was up and running fine. However, I noticed that when I added a new entry it seems there is a "ghost" background behind the entry text. When I added the background color to the entry CSS definition it would be blanked out unless you selected the text. And only that last entry after the upgrade. Is there something that changed? What's also odd, is that it shows correctly on new static pages. The remote control page I wrote after the upgrade. It effects only new entries posted after the upgrade, not existing entries.

Also if I use the print plugin, the page does not print the banner and the right sidebar is missing half the information. It also doesn't show the entry with the correct font.

What's wrong?

Can you reproduce that ghosting in Firefox? This seems like the usual Internet Explorer bug with nested background colors.

So basically in this direction nothing should have changed...

The print plugin changes the stylesheet, depending on your template this might not catch the right or all elements; it was only developed for the default template. IF you want to print your page how it is, you don't need the print plugin.

Regards,
Garvin

Yes, it shows like that with Firefox as well. Only new entries are effected, not existing. New static pages show fine, only new entries added after the upgrade. The old entries look fine. If you want to look at my site here is the link. http://www.socalwizard.com I placed the plugin to change themes at the bottom to see if it's the theme, and you can see that the latest entry is indeed different from the rest. It's real apparent with the Mozilla theme.

I also removed the plugin and I still don't see the correct font when printing.

Well seeing it in other themes got me to looking at the entry without the WYSIWYG editor. There was indeed a background color being applied. Not sure how that got there, but obviously once removed it looks fine.

I'm still having the problem with printing however. I followed your advice on a previous post, and I quote:

garvinhicking wrote:You should change default font and color with the Frontend Template CSS code, and usually not always change it per new post.

The frontend's style.css is responsible for defining fonts/sizes/colors of your entries - you should never abuse the <font> tag the WYSIWYG editor offers. This is only meant to be used on single words or paragraphs, never that you use it to style the whole entry.

Regards,
Garvin

So I do exactly that. I have my template CSS control the font and other things. When I am entering text in the WYSIWYG editor, it displays a differnt font that what is shown on the published page. Is that the problem? I think what it's printing is the font I see when I am editing the text.

Hm, I'm really sorry and not experienced at using the WYSIWYG editors and what happens if they change fonts.

You may need to tweak your template CSS code so that the WYSIWYG elements or style assignmnts are overriden...?

Regards,
Garvin