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Re: span / em / pdf
2004/10/08 12:05
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by Mihai Bazon

I'm not sure if these forums are open yet -- I figured I'd register and give it a try.

They are open, but not very polished. ;-)

For printing, I have two choices. [...] The second choice for printing is to slap the HTML into a 600-pixel width table and just hope for the best. This is much less desirable.

I wouldn't say so.  For instance, if you hit the print icon from Mozilla, wouldn't it print well?  I just tried it and the output looks more than acceptable.  And there's no need for a 600px table :-)  But anyway, if you want customization like repeating table headings on each page a table spans, or using custom header/footer, then this wouldn't work.

Mozilla seems to do a good job repeating table headers, if the header cells are properly identified (i.e. in a THEAD element).  But currently HTMLArea does not support this.

My question is - Will the 3.0 release magically (heh) alleviate my problems? Should I just wait and see?

Well, about printing there's nothing new in 3.0.

Is there a better Linux alternative to html2ps (other than htmldoc - no love there either) that I should be looking into?

Well, it should be--at least theoretically--possible to create a command line script that calls Gecko to render HTML.  And Gecko has superb support for CSS too so it would really be "what you see is what you get".  But anyway, this is far beyond the scope of HTMLArea.
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