Re: Print Question

From: Date: Sat, 06 Jul 2002 04:43:42 +0000
Subject: Re: Print Question
Groups: php.general 
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>Question I have is.... > >I want to run a print job of 200+ invoices > >I have a javascript code to open a print dialog box and >Then go to next invoice and do the loop.. > >Problem I am having is that I want it to pause if the ok button on the >dialog >Box is not pressed.. > >When I run the script it fly's throught and brings up a heap of printer >Dialog boxes which causes me to ctrl+alt+del... > >Anyway or pausing the script untill ok is pressed? I doubt it... And you're real unlikely to find the answer on a PHP mailing list, as noted. Some things you might consider. Use PHP to concatenate all the invoices with a "new page" character (control-L, I think) between them. That's probably only gonna work on an old dot-matrix printer, though... Use PHP to shove all the invoices into a single PDF http://php.net/pdf Use PHP to shove all the invoices into some kind of word-processing program format with page breaks between them. I imagine that if they are simple enough, you could even do a sample MS Word and reverse-engineer the format of the document enough to get it right. Use PHP to spew out the invoices in tab-delimited format, one per row, and download that, and then use Word's "template" or "mail-merge" or whatever they called it to print them up. Oh, I suppose you could use JavaScript with some kind of timer loop so I can click on the "Ok" button as fast as you pop up the stupid windows, but do you really expect me to click 200+ times for your stupid print button to work? Isn't it weird how all my good answers started with "Use PHP?" :-) :-) :-) -- Like Music? http://l-i-e.com/artists.htm

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