Re: Printing a web page on a kiosk

I agree with Booth. If all its being converted to PDF for is so it can be
printed, printing the HTML would work pretty much the same.

Another option is once the PDF is generated, send it to Google Cloud Print
(of course the Kiosk printer would have to be set up through GCP as well as
a printer). I believe you could actually even send the HTML and it would
automatically convert to PDF and print.

I do have an IBM i based utility that will print to a GCP printer from the
command line, but I believe the first option is best.

Brad
www.bvstools.com

Brad
www.bvstools.com


On Wed, May 29, 2013 at 1:43 PM, Booth Martin <booth@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

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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