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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