Batch printing from a ASP.NET Webapp?

[Ardie]

Hi,

I'm currently working on a webapp that generates reports for the user and i was wondering if there was a way to do batch printing.

I was playing around with the idea of sending the reports to a browser window and then starting the print job from there, but i need to know if i can insert a page break or something so that the printer will know when to start a report on a new page.

Is this possilbe? Any help would be greatly appreciated.

[Eric]

Hi Ardie,

Just put this wherever you want a page break:

<p style="page-break-before: always" />

You won't see it on screen, but you will see it in the prinout. Beware
though, it may only work in IE.

Eric
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Hi,

I'm currently working on a webapp that generates reports for the user and i was wondering if there was a way to do batch printing.
I was playing around with the idea of sending the reports to a browser window and then starting the print job from there, but i need to know if i
can insert a page break or something so that the printer will know when to
start a report on a new page.
Is this possilbe? Any help would be greatly appreciated.

[Ardie]

Eric,

Thanks for your help! I used that CSS tag in an external style sheet and it works beautifully!

What i ended up doing is outputing all the reports into one, multi-page html file and added that tag after each "report".

Also, i tested it on Firefox Win/Mac, and on IE6 and it works.
Thanks again for the tip.

Ardie.

"Eric" wrote:

Hi Ardie,

Just put this wherever you want a page break:

<p style="page-break-before: always" />

You won't see it on screen, but you will see it in the prinout. Beware
though, it may only work in IE.

Eric