Re: HTML Printing problem.

"php coder" <phplistbox@hotmail.com> · Tue, 07 Oct 2003 21:06:59 +0000

We have tried this method but it has a lot of problems. One is that you have 
to hit print everytime a new page is printed. You can do some active x 
programming to get around this but then your just talking IE. Another 
problem is that you have to count lines to keep your headers straight. The 
great thing about html is that you can define your headers to look right on 
the screen (only showing once) and in your document (showing on every page) 
with little code. The draw back of html is that there is no effient way to 
print large files.

JAVA comes with a html parser that you can use to send files to the printer. 
Is there something like this in php?

From: Piotr Pluciennik <ppluciennik@yahoo.com>
To: php-windows@lists.php.net
Subject: Re:  HTML Printing problem.
Date: Tue, 07 Oct 2003 22:54:02 +0200

Hi,

if I can suggest you to do some pagination on your reports, then after 
printing

each page, next page will be automatically loaded and printed and so on 
until

report will be printed. Reloading and printing of each page should be done 
with

client side programt, such like javascript...

This metod will produce several html pages smaller and easier to handle for 
the

browser.

HTH, let me know
Piotr

php coder wrote:

> Issue:

> HTML files are to large to print from the browser. We are creating 
reports

> that are ++5 mg in size. This is a real problem for the browser. We are 
on a

> network and can print directly from the server but this means we must

> convert the html to some printer friendly format. We are using many new

> standards such as <tbody and <thead tags to give us consistent header 
tags

> on each page of a printed document. These seem to cause problems with 
most

> conversions that we have seen.

>

> Any help with a solution?

>

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