Can I print text sidewards? + Printing records to A4 + Is it OK to print?

[OM2]

I want to write a mini application that reads in sales data and produces invoices and labels

 

In some cases it might be needed to print text sidewards

Is this doable? Perhaps that's just a case of manipulating CSS

 

Each sale record will need to be printed as individual invoices

Each invoice needs to be printed on a seperate A4 page

How easy is this? Is it possible to have a Page Break character that tells the printer to print the next content on a new page?

 

Lastly: is it  good idea to print from the browser???

I would get rid of the header and footer from being printed

But would there be anything else to consider that would make it a bad idea to use the browser as a report generation + printing mechanism?

 

Thanks

 

 

OM

[Adam]

You could convert the HTML to PDF using PHP? Prob's be some kind of page break character there..

 

Also you can use a CSS print media stylesheet:

 

<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" media="print" href="print.css">

 

That would allow you to remove any headers / footers / banners / big images / etc.

 

A