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
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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.
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Yoav Felberbaum
E-Mail: y.m.felberbaum@[...].uk
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