[Seaside] Printing?

Richard E. Flower rickf at ca-flower.com
Fri Aug 8 18:15:09 UTC 2008


Thanks David -- I didn't know that.. I was hoping it could spit out a  
PDF report possibly.. (yes, I've not looked
into it very deeply obviously!)..

-- Rick

On Aug 8, 2008, at 10:58 AM, David Buck wrote:

> 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
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>>>
>>> Email: bschwab at anest.ufl.edu
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