At 7:35 PM +0800 9/14/06, Man-wai Chang wrote:
How do you guys and gals use PHP+HTML+CSS to print a report to
preprinted forms with precision?
if the report is to be printed at client side, how do you do it? Via
networked printer?
Hi:
From my old days working with a vertical-mill, precision means to
produce the same product repeatedly within tolerance, while accuracy
means to hit the mark (i.e., how close you can get to the desired
measurement).
If you want the same document to be printed with precision
repeatedly, then use anything. The end result may not be what you
want, but the document will look the same each time it's printed from
the same environment.
However, if you want the document to look a specific way (i.e., pixel
perfect), then accuracy is what you're after.
If I had a client who wanted me to produce a document that would
match his specifications accurately, then I would create PDF
documents. DPF documents can be created and printed with accuracy
across different platforms.
For example, this --
http://xn--ovg.com/pdf
-- should print the same (accurately) regardless of what platform the
user has. The precision value of this would lie in the tolerance of
the printer and we don't have any control over that.
hth's
tedd
PS: Note to the gang -- if I'm wrong, please advise.
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