Is there a way to format a HTML page so that the client can "print" the 
page(s) with the browser and have page breaks fall where the designer would 
prefer them to be?  I need to dump some data and I would like to have 
control over the the row and column aspects of the output along with column 
headers, one nicely contained table per sheet of paper.  Or is this only 
handled by using a report engine to generate a pdf output?

Bruce Anderson

Hi,

You have some css pseudo calsses like @media print or @page but there is no 
way ( or at least I don't know how to) to control de output 100% in pure 
HTML. For PDF creation you can use iSED PDF ActiveX that is unexpensive ( I 
have a free wrapper for use it with Xbase without worry about COM,  the 
wrapper handles all at C++ level and you can use itas a regular Xbase++ 
class and compatible with versions 1.7,1.8 and 1.9 of Xbase++)

You can buy the library at
http://www.isedquickpdf.com/
and download my free wrapper at www.xbwin.com

Regards,
Pablo Botella

Hi Bruce:

Assuming that you dynamically create a temporary filled DBF and an HTML file
(hDat) and
where nPG is the variable counting/printing page numbers

1. Add this to the head section of the HTML
    fwrite(hDat,'<style type="text/css">'+CRLF)
    fwrite(hDat,'H1 {page-break-after:always}'+CRLF)
    fwrite(hDat,'</style>'+CRLF)

2. Add this to the body section of the HTML
    do while !eof()
        if nPG<>1
            fwrite(hDat,'<H1></H1>'+CRLF)
        endif
    enddo

Allen Lee schrieb:
> Hi Bruce:
> 
> Assuming that you dynamically create a temporary filled DBF and an HTML file
> (hDat) and
> where nPG is the variable counting/printing page numbers
> 
> 1. Add this to the head section of the HTML
>     fwrite(hDat,'<style type="text/css">'+CRLF)
>     fwrite(hDat,'H1 {page-break-after:always}'+CRLF)
>     fwrite(hDat,'</style>'+CRLF)
> 
> 2. Add this to the body section of the HTML
>     do while !eof()
>         if nPG<>1
>             fwrite(hDat,'<H1></H1>'+CRLF)
>         endif
>     enddo
> 
> 
or you can use paperless printer.
www.DocumentCreator.com

You could wrap each page in a div rather than throwing in an empty tag.


<style> DIV { page-break-after:always; } </style>



<div>

My text, page 1

</div>

<div>

My text, page 2

</div>





"Allen Lee" <alee@infoprosys.net> wrote in message 
news:UuYIV77mFHA.6160@S15147418...
> Hi Bruce:
>
> Assuming that you dynamically create a temporary filled DBF and an HTML 
> file
> (hDat) and
> where nPG is the variable counting/printing page numbers
>
> 1. Add this to the head section of the HTML
>    fwrite(hDat,'<style type="text/css">'+CRLF)
>    fwrite(hDat,'H1 {page-break-after:always}'+CRLF)
>    fwrite(hDat,'</style>'+CRLF)
>
> 2. Add this to the body section of the HTML
>    do while !eof()
>        if nPG<>1
>            fwrite(hDat,'<H1></H1>'+CRLF)
>        endif
>    enddo
>
>

Hi Bruce,

>Is there a way to format a HTML page so that the client can "print" the 
>page(s) with the browser and have page breaks fall where the designer would 
>prefer them to be?  I need to dump some data and I would like to have 
>control over the the row and column aspects of the output along with column 
>headers, one nicely contained table per sheet of paper.  Or is this only 
>handled by using a report engine to generate a pdf output?
Using CSS you can do this, actually you can control all output
behavior using CCS, expect for 1 thing, marges!. the marges are
browser depended. If you stay within them, you can position quite
well.
Also page-breaks are defined(and followed).

Regards
Sander Elias

Bruce,

> Is there a way to format a HTML page so that the client can "print" the 
> page(s) with the browser and have page breaks fall where the designer would 
> prefer them to be?  I need to dump some data and I would like to have 
> control over the the row and column aspects of the output along with column 
> headers, one nicely contained table per sheet of paper.  Or is this only 
> handled by using a report engine to generate a pdf output?

You might want to look at HTMLDoc, which allows you to add page formatting
instructions to HTML, which can later be interpreted by HTMLDoc (which is
free software).  This adds comments with special codes to allow you to
define document-wide page header/footers, page size, margins, add macros
(e.g. for page numbers) etc.

Since it is added as SGML comments, it is transparent when viewed in a
browser.

Regards,

Phil Ide

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