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Re: [PHP] Batch processing & HTML2PS
by Mrdini other posts by this author
May 2 2002 11:03PM messages near this date
Re: [PHP] Batch processing & HTML2PS | Re: [PHP] Batch processing & HTML2PS
In article <php.general-95751@[...].net> ,
 php-general@[...].hk (Jason Wong) wrote:

>  On Friday 03 May 2002 02:05, Mrdini wrote:
>  > Hi,
>  >
>  > I'm currently working on a warehouse system, and I'd like to print some
>  > labels pretty accurately.
>  >
>  > At the moment, I'm using Mozilla to print, but this just won't do,
>  > especially not when we're expecting to print something like 4,000 labels
>  > next week :D
>  >
>  > $client is the MySQL record where the client information is stored.
>  > $copies is the number of copies.
>  >
>  > So, what I was thinking was to go :-
>  >
>  > User selects number of copies to print & the client number.
>  > Give HTML2ps the PHP URL with all the info stored in the URL (form POST
>  > IIRC).
>  
>  I think using the PDF functions would be a much better solution. You have 
>  full control over what gets printed where. Search on sourceforge for wrapper 
>  classes which make the PDF functions easier to use.

Well, I didn't really look into this way of doing PDFs as I want to dump 
straight to lpr (it's a postscript laser printer). Also, I don't feel up 
to learning how to create PDFs -_-. I had a look a while back, and it 
sounds VERY complicated.

-- 
Yoav Felberbaum
E-Mail: y.m.felberbaum@[...].uk
Website (Not worth looking ^_^) : http://www.wlv.ac.uk/~c9807379/

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