[thelist] Better Printing

[Rich Points]

You might want to try developing a printer friendly style sheet.  I'm using 
this technique on this site. 
http://reclaimdemocracy.org/corporate_accountability/corporate_junk_lawsuits.html

Rich
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Hershel Robinson" <hershelr at netvision.net.il>
To: "Thelist (E-mail)" <thelist at lists.evolt.org>
Sent: Thursday, November 18, 2004 8:54 AM
Subject: [thelist] Better Printing


> We have a site which supports Windows MSIE 6 only. One of our pages 
> changes
> greatly depending on the data delivered. This page is the one the clients
> want to print and they want the printed version to look professional--like 
> a
> report.
>
> We have been able to handle most of their requests, but not all. And now 
> one
> user reports a bug as well in the printing, one which we can not 
> duplicate.
>
> We are interested now to examine alternative solutions for printing, which
> would provide more 'desktop publishing' type of features, like customized
> headers and footers on each page and full control of placement of certain
> elements on the printed page.
>
> I suggested we could build a PDF on the server and deliver that, but my
> manager was not thrilled with that idea. He said it requires an extra trip
> to the server and it requires Acrobat to load (he is also not a great fan 
> of
> Acrobat).
>
> Does anyone have any suggestions?
>
> Thanks,
> Hershel
>
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