Well, what I'm trying to do is create a tool that allows a shipping company to print their shipping forms, but use data from a host-based database.
I would have thought that Microsoft Excel would be a lousey print-formatting tool too, but somehow they use it.? If I can create a tool that can do this and bypass Excel, then it's a win-win. The goal would be to allow a user to enter data via a nice GUI front-end, and then allow the user to select that data record at any point in time and print the shipping form to the dot-matrix printer. -----Original Message----- From: Stephen Barncard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: How to use Revolution <use-revolution@lists.runrev.com> Sent: Sun, 27 May 2007 1:23 am Subject: Re: Trying to control OKI Microline 590 24-pin printer Pour through the manual and see if you can find anything about how the printer uses tabs. Also try and select a monospaced font.? ? A Web browser would make a lousy print layout tool.? ? Your workflow description is not clear; what exactly are you trying to accomplish?? ? ? >Say, I'm writing an app for a company that prints shipping paperwork >on a 24-pin OKI Microline 590 24-pin printer.? I've started off by >getting my hands on some working Excel spreadsheets that print to >the printer, with the correct character positioning and spacing to >fix exactly in the right spaces on the page printout.? >? >My questions are:? >? >1)? Is there a way I can somehow detect the character positioning >that spits of out Excel, so that I can replicate it in Revolution >and print to the printer?? >? >and? >? >2)? I'm also toying with the idea of making the printout entirely >web-browser based - - - if I did that, I'd still need to work on >getting the exact character-positioning for the printer.? Any >drawbacks?? >? >and? >? >3)? In the event that regular ol' HTML browser text doesn't work, >anyone know of I can somehow dynamically create a PDF document from >a web-server that could be printed that would do the same thing?? >? ? -- ? stephen barncard? s a n f r a n c i s c o? - - - - - - - - - - - -? ? ? _______________________________________________? use-revolution mailing list? [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences:? http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution? ________________________________________________________________________ AOL now offers free email to everyone. Find out more about what's free from AOL at AOL.com. _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
