RE: Microsoft Word and the iSeries

I am actually after a hands off printing process to print a few hundred
letters at a time

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[mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Nathan Andelin
Sent: Wednesday, January 17, 2007 2:02 PM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Subject: Re: Microsoft Word and the iSeries

Mike Cunningham wrote:
Has anyone ever tried combining the CGI toolset with letter printing?

Yes, I've found that HTML templates work well for page layout and
design, using element styles to trigger page breaks, but my biggest
hurdle in using HTML for graphical reports and letters are the annoying
default headers and footers that browsers insert into the page when
printing.

It would be nice if JavaScript could be used to turn off browser headers
and footers when printing.  The only solution I've come up with so far
is giving users instructions for manually turning off headers and
footers using the browser's print dialog.  Has anyone figured out a
better way of handling this problem?  If so, it seems that HTML would be
a viable solution for graphical printing, perhaps even better than PDF
formats.

Maybe one solution would be to output the file to the IFS using a .doc
extension rather than a .html extension, since Word does a nice job of
reading HTML files, and using Word rather than the browser to do the
printing :-)

Nathan M. Andelin






 
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