"Andrew M. Kuchling" wrote:
Evan Simpson writes:
Unless you want to generate PDF or Postscript files on the fly, you are *not* going to get what you want from a browser-based application, regardless of the server. Neither Zope nor any other Web App can control how your browser will print an HTML page (AFAIK).
Not in general, but within the Big Two you could do something. www.fedex.com lets you print shipping receipts with barcodes; I assume it's done by making the barcode from one-pixel GIF images that get stretched to make the lines of the bar code.
I don't imagine that the barcodes would be a problem; There are a number of ways to generate them. The problem is that he wants to fill in pre-printed forms. He seems to need precise page-placement in his printout, which you *might* be able to manage if you mandate a particular version of a particular browser, and use a lot of tables. Sounds shaky, though.