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Jim Royal
A client has just made an odd request of me.
He wants to move his product catalogue online, for which I proposed an
ecommere package such as OSCommerce. So far so good. But then... he
wants to be able to print a hardcopy catalogue from the same database,
for those customers who do not have easy web access.
Since we're speaking of a few hundred products, this would have to be a
formatted document with several products per page. Intelligent
decisions would have to be made about pagination, such as not splitting
one product entry across pages.
Now, while this is not a technical impossibility, I can't see it as
advisable, as the resulting printed document would likely be rather
crude.
On the other hand, has anyone actually attempted anything like this?
What were your experiences, if you have?
He wants to move his product catalogue online, for which I proposed an
ecommere package such as OSCommerce. So far so good. But then... he
wants to be able to print a hardcopy catalogue from the same database,
for those customers who do not have easy web access.
Since we're speaking of a few hundred products, this would have to be a
formatted document with several products per page. Intelligent
decisions would have to be made about pagination, such as not splitting
one product entry across pages.
Now, while this is not a technical impossibility, I can't see it as
advisable, as the resulting printed document would likely be rather
crude.
On the other hand, has anyone actually attempted anything like this?
What were your experiences, if you have?