On 28-Avr-00 21:05:10, Norbert Roth wrote:
[...]
> Here's the problem:
> It now spits out the whole web page divided
> to several sheets, but the pagebreaks aren't
> controlled properly, so that some small
> parts get lost.
Try to turn off automatic form feed in Turboprint and report if it works
better. V calculates how many sheets are needed and sends out form feeds
automatically. Well, we might make that settable one day if it causes
problems.
[...]
> Well, now some unprofessional
> thoughts about the printing of web-pages.
> The above mentioned printing behaviour leds me
> to the conclusion, that V� sends the whole page
> as one (bitmap) to the printer
> (eventually divided into stripes).
> David G., is this guess right?
Almost. V sends stripes of 256 or less pixels to the printer.
> Well, as HTML is a text markup language and
> V� now supports TTF-fonts, wouldn't it be
> better if V� would divide the page at
> reasonables points in parts and send those
> parts as bitmaps to the printer.
Huh... no. Actually it could do better by printing at the printer's
resolution. So if you printer can do a page of 3000 points horizontally it
could render a temporary bitmap of that size and send it to the printer. That
feature is on my todo list.
[...]
> Another solution might be, to convert
> the HTML source into another format.
Yep, Postscript ouput or so :)
[...]
> I'll try to collect some informations
> from the TeX-DL-ML and some PostScript/PDF
> forums.
> If I get some usefull hints,
> I'll let you know.
Thanks.
--
David Gerber
COBOL: (n.) an old computer language, designed to be read and not run. Unfortunately,
it is often run anyway.
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