Suggestions for debugging print stylesheets?

Question

I've recently been working on a print stylesheet for a website, and I realized that I was at a loss for effective ways to tweak it. It's one thing to have a reload cycle for working on the on-screen layout:

• change code
• command-tab
• reload

but that whole process gets much more arduous when you're trying to print:

• change code
• command-tab
• reload
• print
• squint at print-preview image
• open PDF in Preview for further inspection

Are there tools I'm missing out on here? Does WebKit's inspector have a "pretend this is paged media" checkbox? Is there some magic that Firebug (shudder) can do?

Answer 1

Just show the print stylesheet in your browser using media="screen" while debugging. The print preview view uses the same rendering engine as normal browsing mode so you can get accurate results using that.