Jixor - Stephen I wrote:
There is a few PHP (and php+perl/etc) things out there that do html to
pdf but none of them are quite right. One will find that they need to
spend a lot of time tweaking their output and if you are printing with
complex floats even add additional markup to compensate for bugs. So
thats not quite a good option yet either.
Ive been writing print stylesheets and then printing to PDF from the
browser (firefox) with PrimoPDF (http://www.primopdf.com) to create pdf
files when I or a client needs them, doesn't quite solve the problem but
it comes in handy. I think those sites that use a stylesheet-switcher to
switch to a printer-friendly version to make the layout and so on
simpler, hiding useless/irrelevant objects from the printed page and
still maintaining the look and feel of the sites formatting work very
well on the whole.
If we never use the print css tools people will never catch on and
browser support will continue to be flaky. On the topic of weird and
wonderful print css glitches never use white-space: pre; with IE6 print
css because it's well... you guessed it, it's broken (at least in
conjunction with lists that is).
Rob O
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