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by LordMerlin
Tue Dec 27, 2005 2:57 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: how do I design and print labels off a website?
Replies: 20
Views: 1952

Jcart, do you by any change have such a sample for me?

I tried some AJAX stuff, and it's greek to me :) I just need something where the user can say how many labels are horizontal and vertical, what size they are, how big the gaps are between (height and width), and choose the paper sizes
by LordMerlin
Tue Dec 27, 2005 2:44 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: how do I design and print labels off a website?
Replies: 20
Views: 1952

you say PDF would work great for this, please elaborate, if you don't mind. It is great because you can control everything from exact positioning of the elements (impossible to do in a browser because there are too many variables to consider, such as resolution). Wouldn't that put extra load on the...
by LordMerlin
Sun Dec 11, 2005 3:42 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: how do I design and print labels off a website?
Replies: 20
Views: 1952

Ok, wait. I don't want to learn each new trick there is to learn. No offense, but as it is, I'm having a hard enough time already getting fpdf to work. To learn Ajax now, in order to learn how to work with fpdf is rather time consuming, which I don't have much of at this stage. I have had a look @ A...
by LordMerlin
Sun Dec 11, 2005 11:18 am
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: how do I design and print labels off a website?
Replies: 20
Views: 1952

FPDF seems to be able todo what I want to do. The only problem is, I can't figure out exactly how. They have this one example, http://www.fpdf.org/en/script/script29.php, which can use Avery type labels, which to a great extend meets my requirements. The only problem is, uses the same font and font ...
by LordMerlin
Thu Dec 08, 2005 10:59 am
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: how do I design and print labels off a website?
Replies: 20
Views: 1952

Thanx Jcart. Let's see if I can get this done :) PDF does make sense, you're right. At this stage I'm just trying to get this done the quickest possible way, and unfortunattely after a few days searching on the web, I couldn't find anything. You're input has steered me into a direction to follow, le...
by LordMerlin
Thu Dec 08, 2005 10:13 am
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: how do I design and print labels off a website?
Replies: 20
Views: 1952

Bill, I get what you're saying, and I know how to pagnate in PHP. But, surely I can't have the user pres the "next" button the whole time, especially if he needs to prints a few thousand labels @ a time? How did you get around that? Would you mind sharing some simple samples of how to get ...
by LordMerlin
Thu Dec 08, 2005 7:34 am
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: how do I design and print labels off a website?
Replies: 20
Views: 1952

Hi Bill H It seems like you might be able to help me after all :) What I meant with graphics is not needed, is. The labels mainly need to contain text, and maybe a border around it, though that would be optional. What I'm trying to accomplish is as follows: (Restated) Let's say I have an A4 sheet wi...
by LordMerlin
Thu Dec 08, 2005 6:57 am
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: how do I design and print labels off a website?
Replies: 20
Views: 1952

Yes, or even if I can get it to generate an image, .jpg / .tif / .gif / .png, that could also eliminate the client to have anything other than a printer and a web browser installed :)
by LordMerlin
Thu Dec 08, 2005 5:58 am
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: how do I design and print labels off a website?
Replies: 20
Views: 1952

Seems like my question was a bit mis-understood. I don't want to install and use any client side software to be able to print. I want this to be part of the webpage structure, so a client only needs a printer, and web browser to be able to print the labels. Access isn't cross platform capable, and r...
by LordMerlin
Thu Dec 08, 2005 4:46 am
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: how do I design and print labels off a website?
Replies: 20
Views: 1952

how do I design and print labels off a website?

I'm not sure whether this is a Java / Java SCRIPT / PHP question, but let's try :) We're busy developing an in-house CRM / ERM, and we need to be able to design and print label for pill dispense bottels. Our requirements are as follows: Design the general label layout, including size and text. Graph...
by LordMerlin
Mon Dec 05, 2005 1:17 pm
Forum: Miscellaneous
Topic: window.open() help!!!
Replies: 6
Views: 2343

Which is true, it comes as a standard, ever since Windows 9x, thus many many users have it. But many admins are installing firefox, making it a default, and telling users to use it instead, and having a spread firefox link on your site promotes it. Even though it's Mr. Gates biggest dream, not every...
by LordMerlin
Mon Dec 05, 2005 12:04 pm
Forum: Miscellaneous
Topic: window.open() help!!!
Replies: 6
Views: 2343

Well, I don't think it's that big a problem, especially since Firefox is quickly taking over the browser market, without much fuss. It's more secure, and is preferred by a lot of developers, since it had plugins which could do a lot extra which IE can't :)