Hi,
first to say thanks to Oli and his team.
Nice to see that there's so much progress
in the development of V�.
[Although it still gives me various
undetermined crashes and JS
is still not usable :-(]
After the discussion on this list
how to print via V� in the last month,
I'll have to state that V� still doesn't
print correct (but nearly).
Here's the problem:
It now spits out the whole web page divided
to several sheets, but the pagebreaks aren't
controlled properly, so that some small
parts get lost.
E.g. Loading the file 'interf.html',
topic '3.3 The Main Interface',
from V�'s documentation.
The page first page break
splits the image of the 'Find-Window'
in two pieces, the next break ist directly
underneath the caption '3.6 Status Bar',
the image of the bar is lost in the break.
I'm using V� on a 1120x832x8 WB-Screen
[normally 1152x960x8 but the P-IV ist broken :-(],
TurboPrint v7.x and two Epson laser printers
(EPL-3000, EPL-5700, both with PS-boards).
Well, now some unprofessional
thoughts about the printing of web-pages.
The above mentioned printing behaviour leds me
to the conclusion, that V� sends the whole page
as one (bitmap) to the printer
(eventually divided into stripes).
David G., is this guess right?
Well, as HTML is a text markup language and
V� now supports TTF-fonts, wouldn't it be
better if V� would divide the page at
reasonables points in parts and send those
parts as bitmaps to the printer.
I'm not quite sure how this
should be handled the best way.
Another solution might be, to convert
the HTML source into another format.
There exist several tools (written in C/C++).
Well, until now I don't know if they offer
enough flexibility and power.
I'll try to collect some informations
from the TeX-DL-ML and some PostScript/PDF
forums.
If I get some usefull hints,
I'll let you know.
Thanks again for the efforts of the
Vaporization Team....
Ah, have a nice weekend.
Ciao
NR
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