Print envelope - ASP / Active Server Pages

David C

We have a classic ASP intranet web site that has been around for a while.
Our customer wants to be able to print an envelope from the contact name and
address table. We have other reports that we display and print from the
HTML generated by our ASP code, but have not been able to find any way to
format a page and print to an envelope. Can anyone help? Thanks.

David

Jul 22 '05 #1

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Curt_C [MVP]

David C wrote:

We have a classic ASP intranet web site that has been around for a while.
Our customer wants to be able to print an envelope from the contact name and
address table. We have other reports that we display and print from the
HTML generated by our ASP code, but have not been able to find any way to
format a page and print to an envelope. Can anyone help? Thanks.

David

Print it where? on the server or client? Unless you are just saying you
want to layout the HTML so that the user can print the site/page? If so
you will really want to get away from that. Look at using a third party
addin/component like Crystal to format printings and such.

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Jul 22 '05 #2

David

Yes, at the client. This client is very restricted and all people have
Microsoft Word and all are using IE6. Does that help?

David
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Jul 22 '05 #3

Curt_C [MVP]

David wrote:

Yes, at the client. This client is very restricted and all people have
Microsoft Word and all are using IE6. Does that help?

David
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Not really...I mean you have almost zero ability to do things on the
client, its a fundamental for security. Without a third party
control/component on the client you are limited to just formatting the
HTML result... you can do some with StyleSheets(CSS) and such, to show
it differently but in the end there is only so much you can tweak.
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Jul 22 '05 #4

Adrienne

Gazing into my crystal ball I observed "David C"
<dl*****@lifetimeinc.com> writing in
news:Oa*************@tk2msftngp13.phx.gbl:

We have a classic ASP intranet web site that has been around for a
while. Our customer wants to be able to print an envelope from the
contact name and address table. We have other reports that we display
and print from the HTML generated by our ASP code, but have not been
able to find any way to format a page and print to an envelope. Can
anyone help? Thanks.

David

You could try a little CSS:

<style type="text/css">
@media screen {
body {font-size:100%;}
}
@media print
{
@page {width:9.5in; height:4.125in}
body {width:8.5in; height:3.125in; font-size:10pt}
div#address {margin-left:5in}
..noprint {display:none}
}
</style>
</head>
<body>
<p class="noprint">Hit the print button on your browser to print this
record</p>
<div id="address">
<%=addressinfo%>
</div>
</body>

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Jul 22 '05 #5

David

I have never used the @ sign in CSS. What does it do?

David

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Jul 22 '05 #6

David

Also, it needs to be landscape print.

David

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Jul 22 '05 #7

Adrienne

Gazing into my crystal ball I observed David <da***@lifetime.com> writing
in news:eV**************@TK2MSFTNGP12.phx.gbl:

I have never used the @ sign in CSS. What does it do?

David

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@media print
{
/* tells the UA this is for printing */
}
@page
{
/* tells the printer what kind of paper to use */
}
@media aural
{
/* used for screen readers and such, although most of them use IE's
rendering engine and ignore it :.( */
}

http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-CSS2/media.html#q1
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Jul 22 '05 #8

Adrienne

Gazing into my crystal ball I observed David <da***@lifetime.com> writing
in news:#2*************@TK2MSFTNGP15.phx.gbl:

Also, it needs to be landscape print.

David

http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-CSS2/page.html#page-size-prop

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Jul 22 '05 #9

David

Below is my test page and it does not print in landscape.

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">
<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8">
<title></title>

<style TYPE="text/css">

</style>

</head>
<body>
<p class="noprint">Hit the print button on your browser to print this
record</p>
<div id="address">
David Chase<br>
LifeTime Computing, Inc.<br>
5960 W. Brown Deer Rd.<br>
Brown Deer, WI  53223-2310
</div>

</body>
</html>

David

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Jul 22 '05 #10

Adrienne

Gazing into my crystal ball I observed David <da***@lifetime.com> writing
in news:OG*************@TK2MSFTNGP09.phx.gbl:

Below is my test page and it does not print in landscape.

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html>
<head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html;
charset=utf-8"> <title></title>

<style TYPE="text/css"> 
</style>

</head>
<body>
<p class="noprint">Hit the print button on your browser to print this
record</p> <div id="address">
David Chase<br>
LifeTime Computing, Inc.<br>
5960 W. Brown Deer Rd.<br>
Brown Deer, WI  53223-2310
</div>

</body>
</html>

David

This is not a server side issue - this is a client side CSS issue, better
discussed at comp.infosystems.www.authoring.stylesheets. Follow-ups set.

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Jul 22 '05 #11

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