1. CGI Printing
- Posted by rswiston at hotmail.com
Jun 25, 2003
I am working on a web application that must be able to print 1-1000
documents (depending on the job). I can program the CGI great to
interact with SQL server.
But does anyone know how to program the CGI script to print the
formatted (position, font size, etc) document to a printer connected to
the "local" machine and not the "server"?
2. Re: CGI Printing
- Posted by irvm at ellijay.com
Jun 26, 2003
On Wednesday 25 June 2003 05:00 pm, rswiston at hotmail.com wrote:
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> I am working on a web application that must be able to print 1-1000
> documents (depending on the job). I can program the CGI great to
> interact with SQL server.
>
> But does anyone know how to program the CGI script to print the
> formatted (position, font size, etc) document to a printer connected to
> the "local" machine and not the "server"?
Are you talking about an intranet, or the internet?
If it's an intranet, and the user's printer is shared, then the main problem
will be how to determine the name of the device to print to.
If it's the internet, then I suspect you'll have to create either a web page
or a pdf file, and send that back to the user's browser. From there, they
can print it, or you could put some javascript on the web page to do that
automatically.
Irv
