RE: Printing html from director

2001-03-07 Thread jonathan
Prat, nice namehehehe Could'nt you use css, or does the printing not see that?? -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Ken Prat Sent: 07 March 2001 20:52 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Printing html from director > ---BUT how

RE: Printing html from director

2001-03-07 Thread Ken Prat
> ---BUT how does it work with tables in that html? It won't retain the > formatting, right? Yeah, this would be a pain. You would probably have to switch to a monospace font for tables and do some old time stdout-style formatting. [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode

Re: Printing html from director

2001-03-07 Thread g r i m m w e r k s
On 3/7/01 3:15 PM, "Ken Prat" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > something like: (pseudocode) > > member(mytext).html = readTextStream("myhtml.html") > member(myfield).text = member(mytext).text > member(myfield).rect = member(mytext).rect > > repeat with i = 1 to the number of chars in member(myf

Re: Printing html from director

2001-03-07 Thread g r i m m w e r k s
On 3/7/01 2:50 PM, "Roy Pardi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > #text members are printed as bitmaps by POM - but I have had decent results. > > Problem comes if your #text member runs longer than a page since POM > can't break up the bitmap Ah...that might be the problem; these are some heavy file

RE: Printing html from director

2001-03-07 Thread Ken Prat
> #text members are printed as bitmaps by POM - but I have had > decent results. > > Problem comes if your #text member runs longer than a page since POM > can't break up the bitmap We did a job some time back where we ran a script that duplicated all of the #text as #field. POM prints #fields as

Re: Printing html from director

2001-03-07 Thread Roy Pardi
At 2:23 PM -0500 3/7/2001, g r i m m w e r k s wrote: >Imported the html file into a member and printed that member. The html >formatting printed, but it looked like the member was a picture that had >horrible .jpg compression; even the white space, which leads me to believe >that printomatic or

Re: Printing html from director

2001-03-07 Thread g r i m m w e r k s
On 3/7/01 11:49 AM, "Roy Pardi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > You sure you have the anti-alias setting on for the #text member? ( > for the point size used?) > -- Well, here's what I did... First I tried printing an external .html file: no go as printomatic only recoginizes styled text on a mac

Re: Printing html from director

2001-03-07 Thread Roy Pardi
At 11:29 AM -0500 3/7/2001, g r i m m w e r k s wrote: >Hey all - still dealing with these html issues.. > >We'd really like to print external html files from director (if they need to >be imported that's fine, but the target is keeping them external). > >Printomatic, although it can print the