HTML output help

[Bob Rasmussen]

On Fri, 2 Mar 2007, GCC Consulting wrote:

> This has been a problem, as far as I know, when printing web pages.  They
> don't seem to want to page properly.
> 
> You might consider Printwizard which can produce a PDF file of you report
> and create a link to that.  Your report should print properly and be
> displayed properly.
> 
> I am doing this for one of my client's. In addition, they generate specific
> PDF reports which are e-mailed to the person.  Our next step is to FAX these
> reports to the specific person's office as their e-mail address is not
> always at their office.
> 
> Printwizard has allowed me to use the proportional fonts and scale them.
> This makes for a very non-filepro looking report.
> 
> The other advantage is I am outputting PCL code and Printwizard is
> converting to its markup language.  This saved me a lot of coding.  I just
> needed to adjust my output format.

Thanks for the plug. We have another option, also, known as WePO, for Web 
Print Object. It's a little hard to explain, but it works great. Alan 
Mazuti is using it with his web-accessed system. He said it printed 35,000 
documents last year, on the users' machines.

Browsers are notoriously bad at printing. You've got different browsers, 
different printers, user settings, etc. WePO tries to address most of 
that. However, it is limited to IE on Windows.

WePO is an ActiveX object. It can work as an add-in to IE, similar to how 
Acrobat or Flash does, but it's not nearly as visual. It typically appears 
as a button that says "Print". When the user clicks it, it fetches a 
specified file, usually via HTTP, and prints it. It is usually not the 
same file that is being displayed, but it can be. Because it is Print 
Wizard inside, it can do all the kinds of print processing that PW can do.

The file to be printed can be plain text, PCL-5, PWML, or some parts of 
HTML. You can include an overlay. You can control paper size, orientation, 
duplexing, etc. 

I could go on, but I won't. See http://www.anzio.com/products/wepo.htm

Regards,
....Bob Rasmussen,   President,   Rasmussen Software, Inc.

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