Re: Printing a web page on a kiosk

I usualy print documents generated with CGIDEV2 from the browser, without user intervention.

The "page" is in postscript, I do it using a mask with postscript commands instead of html, and I send it to the browser as type "print". The first time, the browser does not know how to processes it, and asks the user, reply: use "lpr" always. From then on, the page goes directly to the printer.


Booth Martin wrote:

Generating a simple HTML document is pretty straight forward.

Beyond that, I just clicked on the "Print Preview" choice on my browser and it generated a 5 page document to look at.

While not directly applicable to this problem, I did a basic set-up like this in this project:

http://www.martinvt.com/Ice_Cream_Project/Ice_Cream__HTML_/ice_cream__html_.html

fwiw

On 5/29/2013 5:27 PM, Nathan Andelin wrote:

The browser print function only prints what's visible in the page ...

That doesn't sound right. What do you mean by "browser print function"? Evoking window.print() using JavaScript? Keying CTRL + P to bring up the browser print dialog? That enables you to print multi-page documents.

if the PDF is larger than pages the browser only prints what's visible
in the PDF viewer.

Printing only "what's visible" sounds like screen capture. But that doesn't make sense.

We have the data on the Iseries,

So there shouldn't be a problem generating an HTML doc that shows what a user might want to print.

the PDF is static and on the Iseries too.

You could create an image of it and embed that in your HTML document.

-Nathan