[Rails] multi-page printing moving on

[Craig White]

As it turned out, it really didn't matter if the media rules were
separate for screen/print or if they were the same and I set the media
type 'all', once I fixed the issue of page breaks, it pretty much worked
for both.

The issue turned out to be 'positioning' as I had set all the <div>
elements to be absolute positioning which meant that page breaks created
new blank pages as opposed to to rendering each form on it's own page.

The way that I ultimately solved it seemed rather innocuous but it was
effective. The first element to be printed/viewed on the page was an
<img> tag - the logo. I change that to position : relative; and left
everything else set to absolute and that formed each page properly.

Thanks

Craig

On Mon, 2006-02-27 at 22:08 -0700, Ben Vaughan wrote:
> Definately.  If you try to combine your screen layout rules with your
> print rules, I'm not surprised it's not working.  Best practice is to
> create a separate stylesheet just for print.  There's a good write up
> from Eric Meyer (one of CSS's creators) at A List Apart.
> 
> http://www.alistapart.com/articles/goingtoprint/
> 
> It might not be a perfect fit for your situation, but it'll help out
> with a lot of the basics.
> 
> Regards,
> Ben Vaughan
> 
> On 2/27/06, Craig White <craigwhite at azapple.com> wrote:
> > NO - I just have one css file and it's set for media='all'
> >
> > Does having separate css files for print and screen matter?
> >
> > Craig
> >
> > On Mon, 2006-02-27 at 21:20 -0700, Ben Vaughan wrote:
> > > I guess I may be a bit unclear.  Do you have a separate css file for
> > > media="print"?  And it's not working?
> > >
> > > Regards,
> > > Ben Vaughan
> > >
> > > On 2/27/06, Craig White <craigwhite at azapple.com> wrote:
> > > > I have some nice forms done using stylesheets. I currently have them
> > > > displaying on screen and the user could simply just print.
> > > >
> > > > This works when there is only one form (facility) to be viewed/printed.
> > > >
> > > > I have created the looping code necessary to print for all facilities
> > > > but that doesn't work for me because each page uses stylesheets with
> > > > <div> that do absolute positioning and thus each form overlays the
> > > > previous forms and it becomes a blurry mess.
> > > >
> > > > When using css, there are styles strictly for printing that allow the
> > > > use of 'page breaks' but given the format I am doing (viewing on screen
> > > > and then printing), this clearly doesn't work.
> > > >
> > > > So I looked at other methodologies...
> > > >
> > > > HTMLDOC doesn't support stylesheets
> > > >
> > > > PdfWriter has it's own markup code
> > > >
> > > > PDF::Writer has it's own markup code
> > > >
> > > > I suppose the only thing I can do is simply render to print and I
> > > > haven't a clue on how to do that (client side javascript?) or render to
> > > > file.
> > > >
> > > > Anybody doing something like this that can push me in a direction?
> > > >
> > > > Craig
> > > >
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