On Thu, 21 Oct 2004 11:37, Tim Cook wrote:
> 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?
Unfortunately, the Australian prescription forms are provided by the
"govermin". They have a serialnumber printed across the back and we are not
allowed to print these script forms ourselves, just to fill them in.
It's not the PDF generation on the server that takes time, it's the process of
PDF-via-browser printing that is the time and interaction consuming PITA.
What I need is a single "print" button which, once pressed, starts sending
output to the printer within a second without any further need for
interaction - because that's what my desktop software does, and that's what
my colleagues expect. They won't accept any less.
I wasn't able to achieve that with PDF, and if anybody can point me into the
right direction with CSS, I would be grateful.
An example printing just "test string" absolutely positioned 40 mm from the
left page margin, and 60 mm from the top of the print margin would do.
When I use the "absolute" positioning in CSS like :
div.box {position: absolute;
left: 50mm;
top: 60mm;
width: 100mm;
height: 20mm;
padding: 5mm;
font-size: 4mm;
}
<DIV class="box">
This text goes in the box
</DIV>
and print it with different printers (all with the same pagemargins set), I
get different positions on the paper.
Horst
