Bill Walton wrote: > My app collects visitor info via a set of screen forms and now I've > got to print the collected info out so that it fits into the spaces, > etc. on an existing paper form. It's actually going to print (form > and collected into) to a blank piece of paper most of the time, but > it also needs to print just the collected info to a preprinted form. > > My solution so far is to use a scanned image of the paper form as > background. That way the user can turn on background printing if > they're going to print to blank paper, or turn it off if they're > going to print to a preprinted form. I'm positioning the text / > images that are or represent the collected info via CSS (e.g., a > check mark prints in a specific location on the page if they selected > the 'yes' radio button for ' question 4' on the screen form). I've > got two stylesheets, one for 'screen' and the other for 'print'. > This solution is working ok for page one of the printed form. > > Now I need to add page two of the printed form. I would like to be > able to print all the pages of the form with one print command. But > I don't seem to be able to add a second background image. > > I've tried putting the images in two seperate divs (page1 and page2) > in the stylesheet and then putting both divs on the page. I can't > get the second image to print. I've tried combining the two images > into one and then setting the page height in the print css to two > pages high. About the first page and a half of the image printed on > the first page of output, no second page. > > I'd sure appreciate it if someone would point me in a direction that > might work.
Hmmm, how about having your server generate a PDF file on the fly and serve that back to the visitor? I'm guessing that the point of all this is to provide the visitor with a printable form which they then print and sign for sending in via snail mail? -- David [EMAIL PROTECTED] authenticity, honesty, community ______________________________________________________________________ css-discuss [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d IE7b2 testing hub -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/?page=IE7 List wiki/FAQ -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/ Supported by evolt.org -- http://www.evolt.org/help_support_evolt/
