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

[Joel Shapiro]

Hi Webko

I think we've got a mis-connect somewhere... ;-)

Let's take your example at http://apachescricket.com/table.php

It's clearly too wide to fit on one printed page, so I believe it  
would need to be broken down into a "list" of "sub-tables" so that it  
can print from a browser.  Since the columns in your example are so  
wide, we'd probably want to print just one column per page.  So my  
quest is to find the best way to print column1 on page1, col2 on p2,  
etc. -- and make sure that when all pages are printed, the user could  
line up the pages left to right and recreate the table.

Without reliable page-breaks, I don't think this is possible.  Maybe  
the CSS page-break-after will work here.  Otherwise, I'm back to  
creating PDFs.

Or tell me I'm still missing something :-)

Cheers,
-Joel


On Dec 14, 2010, at 4:34 PM, Tim 'Webko' Booth wrote:

> Dear Joel,
>>
>> 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?)
>
> As each row must be exactly the same height all the way across the  
> page, no matter how wide, it should print reliably.
>>
>> 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?
>
> It has to print each row at the same height - rows do not change  
> heights halfway across or anything...
>
> Of course, it wouldn;t take long to test this - except it looks like  
> my browsers won't print a plain table to full width - I was trying  
> to use http://apachescricket.com/table.php as an example, but it  
> only wants to print Col1...
>
> Cheers
>
> Webko
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