On Wed, 2004-10-20 at 18:19, Horst Herb wrote: > I haven't managed yet to accurately fill in the mandated Australian > prescription forms via CSS - it requires absolute positioning relative to > page margins, and how would I do that consistently? > > Currently, I am generating PDFs on the fly, which is a PITA. > > Thankful for any advice.
I can send you then code that I used (originally written by a contributor) in TORCH to fill in the HCFA 1500's as an example of how ReportLab handles it. That is of course still generating them on the fly but with reasonably fast machines and keeping your PDF reader open all the time it is quite fast. This actually duplicates the entire form instead of printing to one. I used to do it using pre-printed forms but color printers are readily available so the scan-able red-lines are easy enough to print. Maybe you could do the same with your script forms? HTH, Tim
