[Seaside] Printing?

[David Buck]

For generating a document on the server and transferring it to the 
client running a web browser, PDF format would be better than Simberon 
Reports.  The latter draws the reports onto bitmaps and expects to be 
able to send them directly to the printer.

David Buck

Richard E. Flower wrote:
> What about Simberon Reports?  There's a VW version but I'm not
> sure if a Squeak version exists or not..  I've never used it but am 
> planning
> on playing with it later this year..
>
> -- Rick
>
> On Aug 8, 2008, at 7:55 AM, Bill Schwab wrote:
>
>> I have a potential application for Seaside, but in our electronic world,
>> they want to print.  Sending a programmatically generated pdf document
>> back to the browser should suffice - I think.  My first thought is to do
>> that via LaTeX; generate the source and then (perhaps on Linux) pipe it
>> into tex2pdf or whatever it's called, and then route that back to the
>> browser through Seaside and OS Process.
>>
>> Am I dreaming?  Is there a better way?
>>
>> BTW, printing the browser output will very likely NOT do the job.  There
>> will be much hand wringing over notations such as pg n of N, headers
>> appearing on each page, etc.  It is a medical application, and one has
>> to be very careful about "lost" pages getting into the wrong patient's
>> chart.  You would probably not what your sister getting your dad's
>> medications, right.
>>
>> Bill
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> Wilhelm K. Schwab, Ph.D.
>> University of Florida
>> Department of Anesthesiology
>> PO Box 100254
>> Gainesville, FL 32610-0254
>>
>> Email: bschwab at anest.ufl.edu
>> Tel: (352) 846-1285
>> FAX: (352) 392-7029
>>
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