Printing via Web-based fP

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Only Bruce Easton would say something like:
> Mark - aside from the output, I'm curious about what you might need
> or expect from an interface in printing these various types of
> output.  Would you say, for the most part, that you would just
> need to click a button, have output generated and get some
> confirmation that the job went through?  Or would you need to
> see the output on the page in some manner first?  (Or a mixture of
> the two depending on type of output or just for the sake of
> flexibility?)

I already generate web-page-based output for perusing and/or editing.  This
is specific to full bills and receipts.  So basically, click a link to
print either one and it could either come up straight to the printer
transparently like I know WePO will do, or it could pop a PDF to a separate
target="_blank" and let Adobe Reader do the grunt work and let the user hit
the all-important "Print" key in the browser plugin.

Those are the two methods I'm looking at.

Now, ideally, in some situations (none that I know of -yet- in this
project, but some I've seen in others), it would be handy to do something
like emulate IUA and keep adding records, and when you save a record, get
both a printed confirmation on the printer -and- a fresh new add record
form in the browser--simultaneously on the same HTTP Response.  I did a
proof of concept of that with WePO for someone, but they erased my proof of
concept files from their server before ever implementing it live. *thwack*

However, I remember it being very easy to do when you know the right
argument for WePO.  THAT is some slick functionality, but I don't currently
need it, to my knowledge.  The links I have in my current task list are all
to be print-only, and I've not heard differently.

mark->
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