RE: [PHP-DB] Re: sending a form feed to a printer
Try this:
hello
hello
Nato
-Original Message-
From: Nathaniel Price [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, April 02, 2003 11:44 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [PHP-DB] Re: sending a form feed to a printer
What you are proposing is possible to do in html, if you add some Cascading
Style Sheets to the mix.
You will need to use the page-break-after attribute:
http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS2/page.html#propdef-page-break-after
It would look something like this (in plain html):
row1col1
row1col2
row2col1
row2col2
...
rowNcol1
rowNcol2
AFAIK, you'll have to close the table each time you want to print a line
feed, although if you want to keep your table together, you might try
putting the 'style="page-break-after: always"' attribute inside the
appropriate tag. No guarantees, tho, as I haven't tried it this way,
and it seems to go against the way CSS should work.
Also, not every browser supports these CSS attributes. You should be fine on
Netscape 6.0/Mozilla and IE 5 or better (not sure about IE, tho).
Nathaniel Price http://www.thornvalley.com
"Who is General Failure and why is he reading my hard drive?"
- Original Message -
From: "Jason S Motes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, April 02, 2003 8:15 AM
Subject: [PHP-DB] Re: sending a form feed to a printer
> form feeds don't work in html. It is interpreted as a space.
>
> Arthur Chevalier wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > I am having problems getting the \f (form feed) expression to work.
After a
> > certain amount of lines print I want to start printing the next line on
a
> > new sheet of paper. Any ideas of what I could be doing wrong. Below is
a
> > sample piece of my code. The bold code is where I am trying to issue
the
> > form feed.
> >
> > while($row = mysql_fetch_array($dbResult))
> > {
> > print("\n");
> > print(" > HREF=\"show_single_server.php?server_name=$row[0]\"
TARGET=\"text_float\">"
> > . $row[0] . "\n");
> > print("". $row[1] . "\n");
> > print("". $row[2] . "\n");
> > print(" > HREF=\"$PHP_SELF?mid_tier=$row[3]&db_rel=0\" TARGET=\"text_float\">".
> > $row[3] . "\n");
> > print(" > HREF=\"$PHP_SELF?db_rel=$row[4]&mid_tier=0\" TARGET=\"text_float\">".
> > $row[4] . "\n");
> >
> > $rowdata = $row[5];
> > if($rowdata == "")
> > {
> > print(" \n");
> > }
> > else
> > {
> > print("". $row[5] . "\n");
> > }
> > print("". $row[6] . "\n");
> > //print("\n");
> >
> > if($counter == "20")
> > {
> > $counter = "0";
> > print("\f");
> > continue;
> > }
> > else
> > {
> > $counter ++;
> > print("");
> > continue;
> > }
> >
> > }
> >
> >
>
>
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Re: [PHP-DB] Re: sending a form feed to a printer
What you are proposing is possible to do in html, if you add some Cascading
Style Sheets to the mix.
You will need to use the page-break-after attribute:
http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS2/page.html#propdef-page-break-after
It would look something like this (in plain html):
row1col1
row1col2
row2col1
row2col2
...
rowNcol1
rowNcol2
AFAIK, you'll have to close the table each time you want to print a line
feed, although if you want to keep your table together, you might try
putting the 'style="page-break-after: always"' attribute inside the
appropriate tag. No guarantees, tho, as I haven't tried it this way,
and it seems to go against the way CSS should work.
Also, not every browser supports these CSS attributes. You should be fine on
Netscape 6.0/Mozilla and IE 5 or better (not sure about IE, tho).
Nathaniel Price http://www.thornvalley.com
"Who is General Failure and why is he reading my hard drive?"
- Original Message -
From: "Jason S Motes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, April 02, 2003 8:15 AM
Subject: [PHP-DB] Re: sending a form feed to a printer
> form feeds don't work in html. It is interpreted as a space.
>
> Arthur Chevalier wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > I am having problems getting the \f (form feed) expression to work.
After a
> > certain amount of lines print I want to start printing the next line on
a
> > new sheet of paper. Any ideas of what I could be doing wrong. Below is
a
> > sample piece of my code. The bold code is where I am trying to issue
the
> > form feed.
> >
> > while($row = mysql_fetch_array($dbResult))
> > {
> > print("\n");
> > print(" > HREF=\"show_single_server.php?server_name=$row[0]\"
TARGET=\"text_float\">"
> > . $row[0] . "\n");
> > print("". $row[1] . "\n");
> > print("". $row[2] . "\n");
> > print(" > HREF=\"$PHP_SELF?mid_tier=$row[3]&db_rel=0\" TARGET=\"text_float\">".
> > $row[3] . "\n");
> > print(" > HREF=\"$PHP_SELF?db_rel=$row[4]&mid_tier=0\" TARGET=\"text_float\">".
> > $row[4] . "\n");
> >
> > $rowdata = $row[5];
> > if($rowdata == "")
> > {
> > print(" \n");
> > }
> > else
> > {
> > print("". $row[5] . "\n");
> > }
> > print("". $row[6] . "\n");
> > //print("\n");
> >
> > if($counter == "20")
> > {
> > $counter = "0";
> > print("\f");
> > continue;
> > }
> > else
> > {
> > $counter ++;
> > print("");
> > continue;
> > }
> >
> > }
> >
> >
>
>
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RE: [PHP-DB] Re: sending a form feed to a printer
I got this code from something I found on a google search, but I've used it
on other clients' projects successfully:
This will work in IE4 and higher:
page one text
page two text
page 3 text
You also have the option of using page-break-after in the same manner.
Three things:
1) Not sure what the equivalent would be in NN or any other browser.
2) You'd probably want to work this into a CSS style.
3) As always, this is a rather "dumb" feature in that it does not recognize
page height or anything. It pretty much requires that you put the page
breaks in manually where you think they should fall. In a large
document/report, sometimes that can get a little hairy.
Here's what the W3C has to say: http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-CSS2/page.html
Here's what M$ has to say:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/workshop/author/dhtml/ref
erence/properties/pagebreakbefore.asp
Hope this helps.
Rich
> -Original Message-
> From: Jason S Motes [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Wednesday, April 02, 2003 11:16 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: [PHP-DB] Re: sending a form feed to a printer
>
>
> form feeds don't work in html. It is interpreted as a space.
>
> Arthur Chevalier wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > I am having problems getting the \f (form feed) expression
> to work. After a
> > certain amount of lines print I want to start printing the
> next line on a
> > new sheet of paper. Any ideas of what I could be doing
> wrong. Below is a
> > sample piece of my code. The bold code is where I am
> trying to issue the
> > form feed.
> >
> > while($row = mysql_fetch_array($dbResult))
> > {
> > print("\n");
> > print(" > HREF=\"show_single_server.php?server_name=$row[0]\"
> TARGET=\"text_float\">"
> > . $row[0] . "\n");
> > print("". $row[1] . "\n");
> > print("". $row[2] . "\n");
> > print(" > HREF=\"$PHP_SELF?mid_tier=$row[3]&db_rel=0\"
> TARGET=\"text_float\">".
> > $row[3] . "\n");
> > print(" > HREF=\"$PHP_SELF?db_rel=$row[4]&mid_tier=0\"
> TARGET=\"text_float\">".
> > $row[4] . "\n");
> >
> > $rowdata = $row[5];
> > if($rowdata == "")
> > {
> > print(" \n");
> > }
> > else
> > {
> > print("". $row[5] . "\n");
> > }
> > print("". $row[6] . "\n");
> > //print("\n");
> >
> > if($counter == "20")
> > {
> > $counter = "0";
> > print("\f");
> > continue;
> > }
> > else
> > {
> > $counter ++;
> > print("");
> > continue;
> > }
> >
> > }
> >
> >
>
>
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