Re: [U2] Universe/SB+ printing including images

2008-03-21 Thread Bob Rasmussen
This was on the subject of using HTML to send formatted page output to users. On Tue, 18 Mar 2008, Charles Barouch wrote: Bob, 1) The client is dealing in acceptance letters, so wide isn't an issue. For columnar reports, they use Informer. 2) Paging can be controlled. It took me a long

Re: [U2] Universe/SB+ printing including images

2008-03-21 Thread Rex Gozar
Bob, Using inline styles in HTML, page breaks can be forced within an HTML page using: span style=page-break-after:always/span It works in FireFox and IE. rex Bob Rasmussen wrote: Your specific set of requirements may work in this case. I'd be interested in seeing a sample output HTML

Re: [U2] Universe/SB+ printing including images

2008-03-18 Thread Charles Barouch
Bob, 1) The client is dealing in acceptance letters, so wide isn't an issue. For columnar reports, they use Informer. 2) Paging can be controlled. It took me a long time to find the code, but you can set print page breaks in an HTML document. I've only tested it with FireFox on a PC, but

Re: [U2] Universe/SB+ printing including images

2008-03-17 Thread Scott Ballinger
Hi Robin, I use Onmerge (www.onmerge.com) to print embedded images from a Word mail-merge document (the image filenames are one of the merge fields). I costs $79US. The biggest drawback is that you are now relying on Word mail-merge processing in an automated production environment, and there is

RE: [U2] Universe/SB+ printing including images

2008-03-17 Thread Kathleené M Hunter
Are you using any imaging software ( like optio) to create the document. -Original Message- From: Robin Smith [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, March 17, 2008 5:17 AM To: u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org Subject: [U2] Universe/SB+ printing including images We use Universe with SB+ on

Re: [U2] Universe/SB+ printing including images

2008-03-17 Thread Charles Barouch
Robin, I build the document as HTML and send it to a person to review and print. Not 100% automated, but my client wants a person to review anyway... - Chuck Robin Smith wrote: We use Universe with SB+ on both Windows and Unix. We have a customer who is looking to print documents to a

RE: [U2] Universe/SB+ printing including images

2008-03-17 Thread Brian Leach
Hi Robin [AD] You might want to take a look at mvPDF. Despite the name, it can render directly to printers as well as producing PDF documents. It's very flexible with a BASIC API underlying it so it can be tailored to most solutions, and I have a white paper on using it to capture SB+ reports.

Re: [U2] Universe/SB+ printing including images

2008-03-17 Thread Bob Rasmussen
On Mon, 17 Mar 2008, Robin Smith wrote: We use Universe with SB+ on both Windows and Unix. We have a customer who is looking to print documents to a colour laser printer that not only include normal textual output but also incorporate a grahical image embedded within the document. The

Re: [U2] Universe/SB+ printing including images

2008-03-17 Thread Bob Rasmussen
On Mon, 17 Mar 2008, Charles Barouch wrote: Robin, I build the document as HTML and send it to a person to review and print. Not 100% automated, but my client wants a person to review anyway... Given the oft-noted behaviors of web browsers when printing, how do you deal with the following

Re: [U2] Universe/SB+ printing including images

2008-03-17 Thread Kevin King
I would highly discourage the use of Optio. While it is a defacto standard with some vendors, it's expensive, it provides little to no debugging to help diagnose problems when it crashes a print queue - and yes, it does crash print queues if anything unexpected happens in the print job - and the