HTML output help

[Jay R. Ashworth]

On Fri, Mar 02, 2007 at 08:49:32AM -0800, Richard Hane wrote:
>    I have just started re-creating our company's outputs to be html
>    (via filepro). Instead of designing a new report format for each
>    output I have created a general holding detail file that uses 80
>    character flds which are uniquely filled by processing in the
>    respective "feeder" files. No problem with this.
>
>    However an item that I need some help on is how to produce the
>    web output so pages come out correctly and have the header print
>    properly. My question is how are others determining end of page
>    (ie. 60 lines) for printing? Are you using line count? Does anyone
>    have a sample processing snipet they can post?

Since HTML is by design not in absolute control of any of the items
that make pages be a certain size (that is: the user can always
override what you've set, and if their window is narrower, you'll also
get linewrap problems, the answer is: you can't get there from here.

Build PDF's, and send those to the browser.

Good luck with that; it's highly non-trivial.

Cheers,
-- jra
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