I think that many of us have run into a similar problem at some point. We came up with a solution, not a pretty solution but a solution nevertheless, by using iText (http://www.lowagie.com/iText/). We were required to print out event invitations to pre-formatted cards from the browser. It was a very difficult task trying to use CSS to do what we wanted since different printers were calibrated differently data on the sheets were always skewed. What we came up with was this:
1. We created a PDF form as described in the first part of the following article (http://www.worlddesign.com/index.cfm/rd/cf/PDFForms.htm). The fields were named the same as the columns of the query concatenated with a row number, so if your query returned columns emp_id, emp_fname, emp_lname the form fields would be named emp_id1, emp_fname1, emp_lname1 etc.. We were printing 8 cards per page (2 columns x 4 rows) 2. The query to populate the cards was retrieved. 3. We calculated the number of pages, then looped over the query and created the pages 'stamped' with the data using a custom implementation of iText. 4. We returned the generated PDF to the browser for printing. We couldn't use auto generated PDF's since the positioning was crucial to us. I would suggest looking at http://cfregex.com/cfcomet/pdf/. If you would like to see some sample code send me an email at [EMAIL PROTECTED] HTH Best Regards, Donnie Bachan Phone: (718) 217-2883 Website: http://www.islandwizards.com Blog: http://angrytrini.blogspot.com "Nitendo Vinces - By Striving You Shall Conquer" ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Find out how CFTicket can increase your company's customer support efficiency by 100% http://www.houseoffusion.com/banners/view.cfm?bannerid=49 Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:4:189732 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:4 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4 Donations & Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
