Gregory Youngblood wrote:
I've seen several sites that have "printer friendly" output. Usually they
create a separate web page, remove the menu options and other "stuff" from
right and left sides, and put the heading. You might play around to find the
right "width" to display properly for most pri
I've seen several sites that have "printer friendly" output. Usually they
create a separate web page, remove the menu options and other "stuff" from
right and left sides, and put the heading. You might play around to find the
right "width" to display properly for most printers, but it should be
pos
Yeah thats what I was thinking.
The overhead could be significant depending on how you do it. If a less
sophisticated print form is required, you would be better off with the
other suggestion (CSS/XSLT) which would get the browser to do the
majority of the work.
In my case, the print forms wer
Tim,
So I assume the idea is that the user clicks on "print form" and the
script generates the PDF and sends that back to the client?
They can then print the pdf from within the browser?
Do you have any idea what kind of overhead this puts on the server?
Thanks for the pointer, if my assumption
Tim Pushor wrote:
Chris,
I would look into making a PDF.
I have done something similar - a customer once wanted to be able to
print or fax invoices from a web form, so I filled in postscript
templates, and sent to mgetty+sendfax (via ghostscript) or to a local
printer.
This was a while ago.
Chris,
I would look into making a PDF.
I have done something similar - a customer once wanted to be able to
print or fax invoices from a web form, so I filled in postscript
templates, and sent to mgetty+sendfax (via ghostscript) or to a local
printer.
This was a while ago.
Now, I would certa
Hello all,
I'm developing a book keeping application, and would like to be able to
print out reports in a nice A4 formatted size page.
I was wondering how this might be done.
An example of what I'm trying to do would be in printing an invoice that
appears as HTML, and just being able to choose "