WebTier print

rbuser

I have just discovered that using the WebTier I need to do some kind of PDF
export to print it. This seems to be a major oversight not being able to
print a report, after all the whole point of reports is to print them. It
seems like having a compiler that doesn't generate an exe. Is this
functionality going to be added in the future.

Craig.

nardmoseley

The goal of the WebTier is to produce content that a web browser can render
without requiring a proprietary plug-in / ActiveX type of technology that
must be downloaded.

ReportBuilder's output to the web browser consist of dynamic HTML - by that
I mean standard HTML and JavaScript. This technologically does not contain
support for rendering to a printer. It is limited to HTML that a web browser
can render. Using the Print button on a web browser does not provide good
results.

PDF provides very high fidelity and quality report output. The Acrobat
reader can be used as a client side app that can preview, zoom, print etc.
Acrobat reader is a plug-in that is already installed on most machines and
has become a standard for portable documents. Users are very familiar and
comfortable using it.

At least that is our experience. Perhaps there is something out there other
alternative technologies that we are overlooking.


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Nard Moseley
Digital Metaphors Corporation
www.digital-metaphors.com

rbuser

I was just suprised because I have done some projects in the past with
Crystal Web browser viewer and it offers this.

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rbuser

Nard,

The only thing that would be nice into this story is that when we
push the print-button, it starts the report in pdf, (as now) but then
print's directly and closes the pdf. I know that this is hard to
realize but it can be done, and it would be nice to have.

I had alreay some users that made the remark that they had to do
twice the action of the print-button (once in RB and once in
AcroRead).



Thx

nardmoseley

Interesting. Do you know whether the viewer requires an ActiveX control or
is the viewer pure HTML?

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Nard Moseley
Digital Metaphors Corporation
www.digital-metaphors.com

rbuser

There are different versions. There is an ActiveX, Java and HTML viewer.
They are downloaded automaticallly when the user goes to the report. I have
not used the HTML viewer as I could not get it to work, but the other 2 work
well.

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them.

nardmoseley

Thanks for that additional info.

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Nard Moseley
Digital Metaphors Corporation
www.digital-metaphors.com

nardmoseley

Not sure how this would be implemented. Via JavaScript that manipulates an
ActiveX control?

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Nard Moseley
Digital Metaphors Corporation
www.digital-metaphors.com