Browser Printing

[Nathan Andelin <nandelin@xxxxxxxxx>]

My question is a spin-off from the discussion about
"Best document formatting language".

It seems to me that HTML is great for portrait and
landscape "layout" but browsers have inadequate
support for printer page setup.

Browsers have File==>Page Setup menu dialogs, but is
there a way for developers to specify page settings
via markup language, styles, or JavaScript, similar to
the way page-break attributes can be defined in CSS
and referenced from JavaScript?

I've seen a few XML/JavaScript examples that
programmatically configure print settings in Internet
Explorer, but the interface is via ActiveX component
embedded in a page, which is not a great solution.

Prompting users to manually configure browser page
settings prior to clicking a "Print" buttton is a poor
workaround, as Pete Hall complained about earlier.

On the other hand, using a tool like Dreamweaver to
design HTML templates, and programmatically generating
HTML reports in RPG is fairly easy and very efficient.

Nathan Andelin



        
                
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