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Table background color is omitted from PDFs

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24.214.27.117 (talkcontribs)

Many technical articles on Wikipedia include background colors in tables to differentiate groups of cells in the tables. An example is the web page for "UTF-8". The table background color is not included in the PDF created for the UTF-8 page. This is a severe defect for technical articles.

Johan (WMF) (talkcontribs)

Yeah, I get this is a problem for some articles. It's a conscious decision to make it possible to print the PDFs (one of the main use cases) in black and white (which is a common way to print things).

Steelpillow (talkcontribs)

Printing a colour pdf in black and white will only be a problem if the background and text tones are close. That should never be done anyway, as the eye is much less sensitive to colour differences. Is pandering to awful content styling really a better idea than throwing away deliberate visual cues?

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