Question : Printing directly from a webpage and printer settings.

Hi,

I want a printer friendly webpage in landscape layout which when printed using a print button on the webpage should directly get printed in landscape layout in the System's default printer.

To eloborate:
The page is ".asp". Browser is IE6.

The printer friendly version of this page should be printed with the landscape size settings.

The asp will access a database and rerieve records to be displayed. These records are displayed in a table with headers.
(for eg. SlNo - Name - Description)
The resulting printer friendly page should also have page breaks. And the table should have headers for everynew page.

Finally, say we have a button "Print" at the end/top or the printer friendly webpage, clicking this button should start printing these pages in landscape mode without invoking the Printer dialog of the browser.

I used style sheet and could change the page size by swapping width and height. This got me the landscape mode in the browser. But when I printed the webpage it printed only in portrait mode.
I dont know how to get printer friendly webpages and how to set the printer settings for a one print job from a script or whatever.
I tried to use "templatePrinter" for printing which I found in MSDN. But, the method "printer.printpage" gives me a permission denied error. So, I dont know why would that come now.


If your solution works on IE6, thats enuff.

Hope somebody can figure a wayout.

GLIVIE.

Answer : Printing directly from a webpage and printer settings.

Hi GLIVIE:

You can try this - you'll need to adjust the settings obviously...

Use the writing-mode property instead. A value meant for East Asian typography, tb-rl, causes IE (5.5 and newer) to write text from top to bottom and right to left. Surround the content you want in landscape with a DIV and a class as defined in the print stylesheet.

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>> The resulting printer friendly page should also have page breaks. And the table should have headers for everynew page.

You're now pushing the limits of how a browser can control a printed page. You may have already exceeded them. You really will need to create a PDF file from the dynamic data to pull this off...