Hi Bryan,
Are you wanting to print to a client machine (meaing not on the
same network) or a server output or machine on the same network as the
server? If you're printing from a server or from a network that your CF
server is on, then you should look into COM and Word or some various
printing programs out there such as stoneage software's printing module
using RTF or at activPDF which has a great (as I understand it) printing
and imaging interface.
If you're looking at printing on the client machine, I
understand that flash has a nice printing module because I've
experienced it before... I don't know how it works, but I can vouch that
it's cool.
Matthew Small
IT Supervisor
Showstopper National Dance Competitions
3660 Old Kings Hwy
Murrells Inlet, SC 29576
843-357-1847
-----Original Message-----
From: Bryan Stevenson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Friday, August 02, 2002 6:08 PM
To: CF-Talk
Subject: RE-REPOST: Limiting Printing
Hey All,
I'm just in the beginning phases of figuring out how I am going to make
it
hard (not bulletproof) for a user to print and image more than once.
Now
I'm open to how that image gets sent to the printer (as an image...in a
Word
file....other ideas...just not in a PDF).
Requirements:
Netscape or IE (version 4 and up)
CF Server 5 Enterprise
Currently using CFX_Image to add text to a blank image file (gif of
jpeg...doesn't matter to me).
My thoughts so far:
I've looked at CF Comet and found a few methods of sending a Word file
to
the printer. That means I could drop the edited image into a Word doc
and
fire that to the printer. Now I suppose that if that method brings up
the
printer dialogue box then the user could simply up the number of copies
(thoughts...comments).
I was thinking of having the image (or thumbnail of it...with right
clicking
disabled) display in a pop-up window with a "print" link which would
send
the proper file to the client's printer....close the pop-up....navigate
the
main window to a new page and disable it's back button (not sure if I
can
disable it in IE and Netscape).
That would take care of most average users. There may be folks that
would
try to work around it, but ultimately it's not too big of an issue if
someone did.
Thoughts? Comments? Cross browser crud? Links? Custom Tags?
Thanks in advance
Bryan Stevenson B.Comm.
VP & Director of E-Commerce Development
Electric Edge Systems Group Inc.
t. 250.920.8830
e. [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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