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Programmatic Printing in IE
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Internet
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Microsoft Internet Explorer
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Thread ID:
00671743
Message ID:
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I have been down this road, and while I don't claim to have the soltuion to your problem, there are issues that make this problem even worse. Such as the use of CSS style Sheets, and personal Style Sheets. Whether or not the usesr even knows they are in place.
Sometimes a user uses ie with larger fonts, and thus the pages have less data on them, Also there appears to be no way to tell ie, to force a page eject, other rendering a html page, which works for the normal 800/600 screen size, without frames.

For invoices and forms (anything designed to be 'printed') I personally found that I can control the output in a browser - and printer much much better using a pdf form.

The trouble with html IMO is the limited tags avail to the progrmamer to control the printing output- page size and so on. All these issues have been addressed quite nicly with pdf.

If you don't have adobe - (costs about 275.00) you can use a free pdf converter for VFP reports to pdf avail here. )

http://www.1amsoftware.com/vfpps2pdf/index.htm

Maybe this helps.
Bob Lee


>Hello All,
>
>I'm hoping someone has experience with IE's TemplatePrinter or another call to force IE to resize a page to "shrink to fit" programmatically from a single web page.
>
>I have a simple-invoice type form that must render in HTML, but sometimes prints to a second page.. Any ideas are greatly appreciated.
>
>P.S. If anyone knows how to turn the header and footer off automatically too that would help; I guess IE considers that a security threat?
>
>Sincerely,
>
>Ed VanDuyne
In the beginning, there was a command prompt, and all was well.
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