Re: Browser Printing

Dear Nathan,

Some work has already been undertaken, to provide a
framework specification, for supporting some of the
capabilities you have outlined in your posting.

For an overview, see the URL:
http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml-print/

I'm not certain whether this specification addresses
everything you would like to accomplish or not.

HTH

Best Regards,

/Paul
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> date: Thu, 27 Oct 2005 12:57:27 -0700 (PDT)
> from: Nathan Andelin <nandelin@xxxxxxxxx>
> subject: Re: Browser Printing
> 
> Rich,
>  
> There's no question in my mind about PDF being a
> robust specification for precision layout.  But it
> seems to me that HTML and CSS also provide a good
> specification for precision layout, using syntax
> that's more readable, and is supported by a number
> of exceptional WYSIWYG editors.  It seems to me that
> stylized HTML reports can be generated more
> efficiently and easily than PDF reports.
>  
> There's no need for intermediate XML syntax, which
> is typically used to define report layout, or need
> for separate WYSIWYG editors designed to generate
> XML  report templates.  There's no need to generate
> intermediate XML files, and no need to process them
> through a converter to generate PDF files.  When
> delivered from a Web site, there's no need to load
> an extra "reader" to display and print the files.
>  
> My problem isn't with HTML or CSS, which are good
> for page layout and page-breaks.  My problem is with
> the notion of instructing browser users to access
> the File=>Page Setup dialog, and possibly the
> File->Print Preview dialog, in order to configure
> browser print settings to be compatible with the
> intended report, before the report can be printed.
>  
> It seems to me that there should be some way in
> HTML/CSS/JavaScript to tell the browser to NOT add
> extra  headers, footers, and margins, for printing,
> for example.
>  
> Nathan Andelin


        
                
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