Re: Printing a web page on a kiosk -- MIDRANGE-L

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Since you have control of every step in the process, why not skip the PDF step? Publish the web page, as you are now doing. Then use the browser's print function directly from the web page to print the information, as needed?

On 5/29/2013 8:29 AM, Jack Tucky wrote:

We have a web page for our customer that is a large non-profit cemetery.
This particular app runs on a kiosk at the welcome center. You can enter
the deceased name, search the database, and we return the burial information
as well as a PDF (from the IFS) containing a map of the plot.

In order to print the complete page, the customer clicks a print button to
print the HTML burial information, then they have to click the PDF viewer
print icon.

We need to make it easier to use. All of the examples I found on the web
for printing the PDF from HTML don't work reliably. They put the PDF in an
iframe and then use printWithDialog, but I can't get them to work on I.E.
They work sometimes on Chrome.

One thing we are considering is converting the PDF to HTML on the fly. I
suppose that would have to be a java call on the Iseries?

Thanks, Jack

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