list might appreciate this information:
CSS 2 has some good print properties now, and a lot of browsers are
supporting them:
http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-CSS2/page.html
page-break-(before|after|inside) will allow you to force page breaks.
The rest of them handle margins, page size and orientation (landscape
/ portrait), orphans and widows (how many lines of a paragraph to
maintain before or after a page break). There are even rules for crop
marks if the pages need to be cut after printing.
So that'd be my recommendation. That should get you past the issues
with Tables in RTF. :)
here's a blog article with some info about support for the standard:
http://www.exitdream.com/archives/2003/07/439.php
Last I knew IE didn't really support page-break-inside, although that
was never an issue when I needed to control page breaks, and this was
a couple years ago on IE 5. I'd like to think IE 6 might have fixed
that, but you never know until you try.
hth
s. isaac dealey 214-823-9345
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> We have several CF applications that are used to generate
> hard copy
> outputs. These hard copies are formatted to meet specific
> requirements
> and must match the original paper forms as closely as
> possible.
> So far, we have been using CF to generate RTF (rich text
> format) files
> to meet this need. Although this works ok, we are looking
> for a better
> solution. If any of you have looked closely at the RTF
> format, I think
> you will agree that it's less than user friendly. Not to
> mention the
> problems that RTF has with embedded tables! YUCK!
> My question is what do you use to generate hard copy
> output (preferably
> in a Microsoft Word compatible format)? We aren't very
> interested in PDF
> files due to the licensing fees associated.
> Any help would be greatly appreciated!
> Matthew Mathers
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> 501 SW 7th St., Suite Q
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