Printing any webform from server.

[Franck]

Hi,
I need to build a server-side print system for any of my webform.
I "just" need to print text, keep position (table,<tr>,<td>, etc) and
replace controls with text.

As it will be extended to all the asp.net applications of my company,
I'm tryin to build a generic stuff.
I've been struggling with that for days until starting to work with
xsl.

I'm currently working from the html my webforms return.
HTML + XSL => XHTML
XHTML + XSL => XSL:FO

XSL:FO => PDF (using NFOP)
Send file to printer.

My question is : Am I right doing this way ? It's kind of a complex way
of sending html to printer.
By the way, as it will soon be necessary to send result by email
instead of printing it, I think I'm not doin wrong using xsl and pdf
generation.

THks for your help.

 

[Edwin Knoppert]

We are using ghostscript and a postscript printerdriver:

http://www.hellobasic.com/cgi-bin/forum/YaBB.pl?board=dotnet;action=display;num=1134897582

So use a shellexecute() API to "print" (not "open") to print the html to
PDF.
It should work.