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85% of my clients can effectively print reports, forms, and even mailing labels from their browsers. I'm still searching for a solution for the remaining 15%.
Does anyone know of an Active X control that will save the data to a file, open a pre-formatted Word document, and do the merge, all in one step? Or have ideas for another solution?
That scenario is beyond my present programming abilities, if it is even possible.
What exactly is their problem. Itīs hard to come up with a good solution to a problem you donīt know ;-).
>>Active X control
That would work but only in IE.
Iīd try to stay with a server-side solution. Have you considered PDF.
Andreas
1- Absolute positioning
2- Setting response.contentType="application/ms-word"
3 - Printer friendly versions like this:
<% if request("printer") <> "true" then%>
<!-- #include virtual="htmltemplate.asp" -->
<% else %>
<!-- #include virtual="printertemplate.asp" -->
<% end if %>
What exactly is their problem.
On my printer, I can control margins down to .12 all four sides. On several of my client printers the defaults range from .5 on the bottom to higher.
Every printer is different.
When I try to print mailing labels, as an example, the page breaks get messed up if they don't have the margins set correctly.
I am using absolute positioning for the labels, which works fabulously! Even down to the small return address labels which show barcodes. Perfectly in fact - on about 85% of my users printers.
I did look at Active PDF, but didn't like it, and liked their support desk even less.
I found a little program called pdfFactory Pro, from Fineprint.com which installs on the client as a printer driver, and can adjust the page content to fit the printer. But I don't want my clients to have to buy this, or for me to provide it.
A server side solution is the best naturally. There was a nice little ActiveX from meadco, but it won't override the printer minimums.
