Re: Printing a web page on a kiosk

Cross posted to move it to Web-400.

The browser print function only prints what's visible in the page, IOW, if
the PDF is larger than pages the browser only prints what's visible in the
PDF viewer.

We have the data on the Iseries, the PDF is static and on the Iseries too.
So combining them would require creating a new PDF. The system I is on V5R4
until the hardware is upgraded in the fall.

Maybe I need to check if the PDF object is set to 100%..... hmmm

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From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Bradley Stone
Sent: Wednesday, May 29, 2013 4:21 PM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Subject: 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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