This is just off my head, and completely untested (I'm writing it into this email as I think of it).
What you want to do is create your panels as you want them to print them in <div> blocks. Then tell these <div> blocks to float left. What will happen is that if there is not enough room for the next <div> to fit to the right of the previous one, it will fall to below it in line. This works on the screen and on a printer. We did something like this for a telephone directory, we set the names into groups that would output in columns when printed.
Don't forget you can define a print style sheet with different properties then your screen. Makes it very easy to make your display look good both on screen and paper.
Some code snippets.
<style media="print">
div
{
width: 8in;
float: left;
}
</style>
<cfset sec = 1>
<div id="Panel1-#sec#"
<cfloop over data by dates>
OUTPUT RESULTS
<cfif Columns greater then 5>
<cfset sec = sec + 1>
</div>
<div ID=Panel1-#sec#>
</cfif
</cfloop>
</div>
I'm sure this will take quite a bit of refinement, but hopefully it gets you started. If you need more specific help let me know.
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Ian Skinner
Web Programmer
BloodSource
www.BloodSource.org
Sacramento, CA
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