Squeak needs printing capabilities

staypufd staypufd at gte.net
Fri Apr 10 05:28:24 UTC 1998


In your msg you said,

>TedK wrote:
><<
>We have already begun to let Squeak generate .html files.  Almost every
>platform has a web browser that can print.  If you choose "PrintOut" in the
>Browser, it generates a html file.  One problem with html is that you have no
>control over horizontal spacing.  Tabs are not supported.   Putting in more
>than one space character does not influence horizontal spacing.
>
>Other than that, html is a 'universal' printing format.  I've noticed some 
>gif
>support in the system.  I would like to see us expand this capability to 
>allow
>any window to dump an image of itself on the disk as a legal html file.  An
>added benefit is that one can make web pages by 'printing' and moving the 
>files
>to your web server.
>>>
>
>I don't know if everyone knows this dirty little web trick or not, but you 
>can
>use transparent gifs of various size (or widths) to simulate tabs (but not 
>tab
>stops).  Not the perfect solution, but it would at least be useful for
>rendering code and other simple linear forms of text formating.
>
>Regards,
>Sam
>
>Sam S. Adams, Distinguished Engineer, IBM Network Computing Software Division
>tie line 444-0736, outside 919-254-0736, email: ssadams at us.ibm.com
><<Hebrews 11:6, Proverbs 3:5-6, Romans 1:16-17, I Corinthians 1:10>>
>
You might want to generate html that uses the latest cascading style 
sheets stuff.  It lets you choose fonts, absolute and relative placement, 
etc.

Sam Griffith Jr.
Objective Methods Software
staypufed at aol.com
staypufd at gte.net





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