[FX.php List] [OFF] printable very wide table?

[Joel Shapiro]

Hi Webko

Thanks for the reply.

You're right about row height.  I hadn't expressed my concern well.   
My concern really was printing the same rows consistently page after  
page without reliable page breaks.  I'm worried that if I try to  
'fudge' page breaks by div height, then at some point a user might get  
rows 1-35 on pages 1-3, but then page 4 might be only rows 1-34 and  
then page 5 would be row 35, then a gap, & then rows 1-34-ish.  (Or is  
there something I'm not getting?)

I hadn't known about the CSS page-break-after property, so that might  
be a good solution.

Then again... as I think about it even more...  I'm wondering now if a  
user's browser is set to "scale to fit", then if one page has fewer  
columns than another, might one page scale differently than other  
pages, or would all pages print at the same scaling per print job,  
regardless of indiv page widths?  (scaling differently probably  
*would* grow or shrink row height).  I'd hope each print job would be  
consistent across all pages, but is that something I can trust across  
browsers, OSes, and moving into the future?

Cheers,
-Joel


On Dec 14, 2010, at 3:14 PM, Tim 'Webko' Booth wrote:

> Dear Joel,
>>
>> I'm thinking of outputting to PDF, making sure the row height is  
>> consistent across all pages, so a user could line up the pages  
>> after they've printed...  but thought I'd check in here to see if  
>> anybody's got any thoughts or suggestions.
>
> Having read everything else:
>
> If you just make it a table, any given printout will line up across  
> multiple pages - the height of each individual row doesn't vary  
> across the page, no matter how wide, so if they print it each row  
> will line up.
>
> This will not mean that printing the table from different browsers  
> etc will mean that the pages are the same for each, just that any  
> given printout will be consistent...
>
> Cheers
>
> Webko
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