Re: Printing

From: Date: Wed, 17 Dec 2008 20:19:32 +0000
Subject: Re: Printing
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On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 3:16 PM, Dan Shirah <mrsquash2@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > Do you want to print this on your office printer or on the website > users > > printer? > > > > If you are looking for away to print it on their printer, why not just > grab > > all the files that need to be printed, make a PDF of it, and then use the > > browsers print feature? > > > > > > > > -- > > Jason Pruim > > japruim@raoset.com > > 616.399.2355 > > > > I want it to print to the users local printer. > > Basically the user has a form and based on their search criteria they will > get multiple results. > > Next to each result I have a checkbox that the user will use to select the > documents they want to print. > > Once they have selected everything they want to print, they click on a > "Print Selection" link. > > The checkboxes all have the same name but different dynamically assigned > values, so once they click to print, an array of values for the checkbox > name is passed to my next page. > > I have a for () loop on the next page that extracts each individual value > and uses it in a query to extract information and build a pdf which is > automatically output to a file. > > Once a PDF has been generated I want to send it to the users printer to be > printed. > You can't, the best you can do is send the PDF down and let the user choose to do with it what they will -- Bastien Cat, the other other white meat

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