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[VinnyCP]

Hey, Guys...

I'm developing a web application that can arrange address stickers into a pattern page, wich has 9 rows and 3 columns of stickers to print on.

 

I first tried to print the page with JavaScript, then the page could be printed in the browser.

The problem is: There are to much trash in the page printed. For example: the website URL, the title of the page, the number of the page, etc.

I would lose some stickers if I print that, because there's no margin in the stickers page.

 

Then I tried to make a PDF file with a matrix coming from the XML document that I save the positions of the page where the addresses id's are.

With this, the user could save the PDF and print it without margins...

I looked for 3 PDF libraries documentations, and in none of them I could control the size of the cell.

 

The stickers page has a fixed width of 21cm, what gives me ~793.700787 pixels on width, and it has a height of 29.61cm, that is ~1119.118110 pixels.

With that, each sticker must be 7cm (264.566px) on width and 3.29cm (124.346px) on height.

 

The questions are:

 

Is there a PDF library that I can control the table size, the margin of the page and the cells size?

 

If doesn't, what other technology is recommended by you guys, for printing some content like that?

 

I have been thinking about another 2 options:

- Dealing the XML with a C application;

- Saving the document in other format, like XLS, wich I don't know if I can use predefined heights and widths to the cells.

 

Are these two options recommended?

 

 

 

Thank you.

[Mchl]

Is there a PDF library that I can control the table size, the margin of the page and the cells size?

 

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