Latest revision as of 21:02, 11 Mayıs 2022

Printing from HTML template

The idea is that form letters and other reports should be easily adjustable.

To achieve this goal, we are now using wkhtmltopdf.

@@ Line 2: / Line 2: @@
 The idea is that form letters and other reports should be easily adjustable.
-To achieve this goal, we had to write our own HTML printer, which sounds strange at first, but there seems to be no other option to print HTML with .net System.Drawing.
+To achieve this goal, we are now using [https://wkhtmltopdf.org/ wkhtmltopdf].
-== Testing project ==
-Please see the testing project Tests.Common.Printing in solution Testing.sln; this project comes with a sample HTML file, and an editor for the HTML file, and the preview screen for the print result, with comparison to display in an HTML browser.
-== Features ==
-Obviously, not all features of HTML could be implemented.
-Generally, we limit ourselves to XHTML, which makes it easier to parse the document.
-We support:
-*tables: table, th, tr, td, tbody, colgroup, col width.
-** Tables are automatically split across pages, and the line with th elements is repeated each time.
-** td: align with values right or left or center
-** td: nowrap="nowrap" avoids wrapping of lines
-*special div with class PageHeader: this is repeated for each page
-** #PAGENR and #PAGETOTAL in the HTML text will be replaced automatically with appropriate numbers
-*font size: change the relative size
-*b: bold text
-*page margins:
-** currently only supported: <body style="margin-left:0px, margin-right:0px"
-** without this, a default margin for normal letters is used (approx 2cm margin?)