Re: is printing tabular data really that annoying?
Re: is printing tabular data really that annoying?
- Subject: Re: is printing tabular data really that annoying?
- From: Scott Stevenson <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2007 07:49:02 -0800
On Jan 18, 2007, at 7:33 AM, Jim Thomason wrote:
The most popular suggestion seems to be creating an HTML string and
using webkit to render and print it. Pagination is still glossed over,
including multiple header rows, but that can probably be dealt with (I
assume. I haven't fiddled with WebKit much).
All of people I've talked to go this route. The nice thing is that
WebKit does all of the layout for you. Also, stylesheets allow the
user to choose from several designs. Pagination is the big thing, as
you mention. I don't know/remember what the solution for that is
offhand.
And I'm just amazed that it's this much effort. The tableview displays
easily on the screen, and cocoa's printing is just drawing the same as
you would to the screen, but sending to a different device, right?
The appearance of a stock NSTableView isn't really best for print. On
paper, contrast and simple lines are usually the big thing, not
gradients and such.
- Scott
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