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[Jose Lerebours]

Bob Rasmussen wrote:
> If the only thing on the end user's desktop is a web browser, then 
> printing can be a serious problem. Web browsers are notoriously bad ad 
> printing, although getting better. You don't know what kind of printer the 
> end user has, and even if you knew, you couldn't deal with it.
>
> The usual solution is to create a PDF. This has its own challenges.
>
> [AD] We offer Print Wizard in the form of an ActiveX object (an OCX); we 
> call this WePO for "Web Print Object". This is a chunk of code that gets 
> downloaded to the client's machine (which must be Windows), and appears 
> there on the web page as a button that says "Print". When the user presses 
> it, the code fetches a specified file from an HTTP[S] or FTP location, and 
> prints it. It can be plain text, PCL-5, or PWML. It can include an 
> overlay. In short, virtually all of the power of Print Wizard. More info 
> at the website below.
>
>   
Never waste a good crisis!  :-)

Actually, printing from web is very feasible using CSS.  That being 
said, I have written PHP apps that
use HPGL to print documents and it works like a charm (I ended up 
writing a class to get the job done).

Of course, printing solutions I am referring to work well when your 
application is used by a set of
users with configurable environment. 

Regards,


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Jose Lerebours
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