[Zope-dev] Re: [Zope] [ANN] ZpdfDocument-0-0-1

[Pavlos Christoforou]

Hi Hannu

I have moved this discussion on the zope-dev list ...

On Tue, 16 Nov 1999, Hannu Krosing wrote:

> 
> The _right_ (tm) approach would be to implement support for CSS2 (and test it
> on 
> something really complex like MSWord2000 MS-XML-(X)HTML docs ;)

 I was afraid you or someone else would say something like this ;-).
Eventually it is the right way to go.

> 
> The one that actually can be done in reasonable amount of time would be a
> minimal 
> set of additional tags (maybe only <page>) an some attributes for some tags - 
> page_break_before, page_break_after with their counterparts no_ page_break_xxx
> to 
> override style defaults. And a possibility to set such style defaults.

This is what I am thinking too. If I get some time next weekend I might
try to add them.

> 
> I will also need to disable page headers and footers (my current need is
> printing 
> exactly positioned addresses on postcards) and next I will add a feature to
> make 
> them optional (unless this already exists ?)

No, I did not give the option to remove them. I should have them by next
release.

Thanks for the feedback Hannu

Pavlos