Re: Printer friendly output

2003-12-21 Thread Fagyal, Csongor
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

RE: Printer friendly output

2003-12-21 Thread Gregory Youngblood
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

Re: Printer friendly output

2003-12-21 Thread Tim Pushor
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

Re: Printer friendly output

2003-12-21 Thread Chris Marschall
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

Re: Printer friendly output

2003-12-21 Thread Fagyal, Csongor
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.

Re: Printer friendly output

2003-12-21 Thread Tim Pushor
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

RE: Printer friendly output

2003-12-21 Thread Chris Marschall
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 "