Proper printable webpages?

mewso

Does anyone know if it's possible when creating a printable webpage to know when it's going to run onto a new page. i.e. if you don't want the printed content to be split in a bad looking manner. This would make it nice for say reports etc. Is this possible or is it just hit and miss/trial and error getting it to page nicely?

Gavin

this could possibly be useful ?

http://www.dynamicdrive.com/dynamicindex9/printstyle.htm


Gav

ps howdy !

nahdoic

that is pretty sweet Verb! because you would actually make the word document that would be printed, you could add lotsa mircosoft word formatting to it, as well as appropriate page breaks. Too bad it only works in MSIE 4+

Enygma

You could use FOP (http://xml.apache.org) to translate it into a PDF.
It's really quite simple, you get an XML transform it using an XSL into an XML document with FO tags and then use FOP to generate the PDF.

Worth a look anyways

sisob

I use a mixture of php and css on my site ( http://sisob.dyndns.org ) to create printer friendly documents

There is only so much you can do with html - pdfs are the way to go.

mneylon

Originally posted by Enygma
You could use FOP (http://xml.apache.org) to translate it into a PDF.
It's really quite simple, you get an XML transform it using an XSL into an XML document with FO tags and then use FOP to generate the PDF.

Worth a look anyways

I presume (maybe incorrectly) that this is Perl based. If so which version? I've been running into a lot of problems with modules that are only 5.6 compatible

Enygma

I presume (maybe incorrectly) that this is Perl based.

You're right, you did presume incorrectly. It's Java based, much neater, in other words, it'll do what it says on the tin. Most of the code you'll write though, if not all of it, will be XML.