Re: Printing library in PHP ?

Hi Manuel, I am trying to print from the client side. The client will be windows. Thanks. On 3/13/06, Manuel Lemos <mlemos@acm.org> wrote: > > Hello, > > on 03/13/2006 09:44 AM robert mena said the following: > > I am currently migrating an application originally written with Delphi > to > > PHP. Everything is going fine except the printing of the reports that > does > > not produce the same visual result (i.e does not look the same or has > some > > aligmment issues). > > > > From what I've read I should use CSS to achieve such result but I was > > wondering if there is any toolkit, library in PHP that would ease my > work. > > > > For example: > > I have a specific report I have to add a header to each page > > I have another one with tabular data that when the result is larger than > a > > page I should break the table and start at the next page so the table > > headers can be seen again... > > > > In both I'd need a way to decide/find out how many pages will be > necessary > > (given the size of the paper sheet) so I could generate the HTML > correctly. > > You did not mention the platform you want to print, nor if you want to > print on the client side or server side. > > If you want to print on the server side, you may want to take a look at > this IPP (Internet Printing Protocol) client class that can be used to > print HTML documents on Windows and Linux (with CUPS). > > http://www.phpclasses.org/printipp > > > -- > > Regards, > Manuel Lemos > > Metastorage - Data object relational mapping layer generator > http://www.metastorage.net/ > > PHP Classes - Free ready to use OOP components written in PHP > http://www.phpclasses.org/ >