printing

Sending raw data to FedEx Label printer

I'm working on a .NET WinForms app that needs to print a FEDEX shipping label. As part of the FedEx api, I can get raw label data for the printer. I just don't know how to send that data to the printer through .NET (I'm using C#). To be clear, the data is already pre formatted into ZPL (Zebra printer language) I just need to send it...

Landscape printing from HTML

I have a HTML report, which needs to be printed landscape because of the many columns. It there a way to do this, without the user having to change the document settings? And what are the options amongst browsers. ...

Eclipse C++ pretty printing?

The output we get when printing C++ sources from Eclipse is rather ugly. Is there are way/a plugin to pretty print C++ source code like e.g. with a2ps (which is probably using yet another filter for C source code)? ...

HTML input style to hide the box but show the contents

I have a form in HTML where our users fill in the data and then print it. The data isn't saved anywhere. These forms come from outside our company and are built as html pages to resemble the original as closely as possible and then stuffed away and forgotten in a folder on the intranet. Normally another developer does them, but I have...

WinForms printing: how can I access the progress dialog?

When printing in Windows forms, or doing a print preview, a dialog is displayed with text like Page [P] of [DOC] where [P] is page number and [DOC] is the name of the document. The dialog also contains a button to allow the user to cancel the print job. How can I change the text displayed? What I would prefer is text like Page [P] ...

Remote print module in Java

I am working on an application that will sport a web-based point of sale interface. The point of sale PC (I am not sure as of now whether it will run on Linux or Windows) must have a fiscal printer attached to it, but like any web app, it is the server which processes all stuff. Both server and PoS machines are on the same LAN. I must ...

How do you find the largest font size that won't break a given text?

I'm trying to use CSS (under @media print) and JavaScript to print a one-page document with a given piece of text made as large as possible while still fitting inside a given width. The length of the text is not known beforehand, so simply using a fixed-width font is not an option. To put it another way, I'm looking for proper resizing...

How do you convert pixels to printed inches in JavaScript?

I want to resize the font of a SPAN element's style until it the SPAN's text is 7.5 inches wide when printed out on paper, but JavaScript only reports the SPAN's clientWidth property in pixels. <span id="test">123456</span> And then: #test { font-size:1.2in; /* adjust this for yourself until printout measures 7.5in wide */ } And ...

Hide triangle of dropdownlist when using css with media print

I'm using @media print in my external css file to hide menus etc. However while printing the little triangle of a dropdownlist still shows. Is there a css setting available to hide it as well and only print the selected item? ...

Printing Labels from ASP.Net Page

I am working on an ASP.Net web application that must print dynamically created labels on standard Avery-style label sheets (one particular size, so only one overall layout). The labels have a variable number of lines (3-6) and may contain either lines of text or a graphic barcode image. Our first cut, that I inherited, used monospaced f...

What is the reporting tool that you would use?

I need a tool that handle both on-screen and printed reports, via my C# application. I'm looking for simple, standard and powerful. I need to be able to give the user the ability to select which columns to display, formatting, etc... with my own GUI and dynamically build the report based upon their choices. Crystal does not fit the b...

How do you control printer tray selection for printer in Windows

We need to be able to change the default selected print tray of a given printer. Does anyone have VC++/win32 code for doing this? In case it matters, I believe we have to change the default setting for the printer. Our print jobs are executed by an application other than ours, so we can't make these kinds of changes in the context of ...

How do I build a webpage for printing so it won't split badly over pages?

I have a web application that generates a long report and I need to print it. If I just print the page it will break at the end of the physical page. How can I calculate where to make a break in the web page so that the page breaks line up with the physical pages when they print? ...

Persisting Printer Settings

What is the best way to persist/save printer settings in .Net? There used to be a bug in .Net 1.1 in the serialization of the PrinterSetting object and there were some workarounds but I'm wondering if there isn't a better or easier way of doing this in the more recent versions of the framework. The main use case is to allow a user to de...

Is it possible to print just the canvas element?

I've created a web page that lets you input some information and then draws an image in a canvas element based on that info. I have it pretty much working the way I want except for the printing. Is there a way to print out the canvas element or is creating a new window to draw in, the only way to do it? Update: The answer was so simp...

Printing from the web with few steps

I need to add functionality to my J2EE-based wep application: 1) Take some page, probably with form controls, convert it to some printer friendly format. 2) Print this rendered format a) without showing it and b) without a print dialog. I'm not too worried about 1, but have no idea if 2a and 2b are even possible. Thanks for any help. ...

How do I customize the print layout of a SharePoint list item?

i need to be able to produce a "pretty" printout of an individual list item's values, with the goals being: get rid of all navigation organize data as it would appear on a typical paper form (a customer requirement) i'm avoiding using InfoPath at this time due to other issues (which i'll post separate questions for...) for example, ...

Monitoring a printer

I've written a DLL that monitors our netowork printer. The printer is connected to the server via USB cable. When I print something directly from the server, it displays information about pages sent/printed properly, but when I print something from one of the client computers it only displays its IP, sent/printed is always 0. I suppose ...

What's the best approach to printing/reporting from WPF?

I have an upcoming project which will have to be able to print simple reports from its data. It'll be WPF-based, and I'm wondering which way to go. I know that WPF introduces its own printing technology (based on XPS) which looks quite easy to use. However, part of me wonders whether it would just be easier to use the ReportViewer contr...

Visual Print Design for .NET

I have a project that I'm working on and I need to be able to print out ID cards from the program. Are there any products out there that are reasonably priced so I can design a document for print and use it in .NET? I'm trying to avoid using System.Drawing from having to do it manually because when the company I work for needs to make ch...