PDF Forms - a new approach (At least for us)

[Walter D Vaughan Jr]

Is this an interactive need? Meaning a human is requesting this
interactively?

What I have done is wrote the CSS with using print media styling and
non-print styling. So the operator sees a few ajaxy drop down boxes, and
then they hit print preview they see a fully formatted and paginated catalog
that they print using CutePDF or actually a physical printer that prints the
cover on card stock, folds and staples the whole thing together. Though we
probably do 10 pdf to 1 physical we can work with what the customer really
wants. I did have to work up a little bit of magic to create filler pages so
the page count was always divisible by four.

I gave up quickly on trying to have it non-interactive with a browser.
(iText and its brethren ) YMMV.

I did discover this spring that latest version of IE handled the print media
commands more accurately. When I started I was working with Chrome
exclusively and discovered that IE would actually do what the spec says
should happen. Later versions of Chrome may have addressed problems, but
today from my perspective since we use it hundred times a day the IE
implementation of print-media in the browser is the best and has not broken
with each update.

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> Subject: Re: PDF Forms - a new approach (At least for us)
> 
> As long as we're on the topic...
> 
> Anyone know of a good, open-source solution to convert HTML+CSS3 to
> PDF?
> 
> The one we found would only build on Debian variants, and literally would
> have been a bitch to patch to our platform.
> 
> mark->
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