RE: Printing question?

by "Captain F.M. O'Lary" <ctfuzzy(at)canopy.net>

 Date:  Wed, 11 Apr 2001 23:29:31 -0400
 To:  <beauford(at)iname.com>,
"Hwg-Basics" <hwg-basics(at)hwg.org>
 References:  90172
  todo: View Thread, Original
Howdy again.

Naw. You are not nuts Beaufort. Well actually you may be, but not about the
*possibilities* in this issue, anyway.

It is ~completely~ possible to do exactly what you want. There are two
problems (pardon my language in advance please):

1) It would be complex as hell to write if you want it to work for a
majority audience, and would definitely require fluency in a scripting
language.
2) Would FREAK OUT and experienced surfer as soon as they realized you were
running a script that changed their own personal settings.

#2 is entirely my personal opinion.

HTH,
Fuzzy.

At 08:30 PM 4/11/01 , Beauford wrote:
>Hi,
>
>Thanks for all the answers. Unforunately PDF is not an option for me. I need
>to print it directly from the webpage.
>
>I still believe this is possible, and correct me if I am wrong with my logic
>here. The printer will only print headers, footers etc. if they are defined
>by the user - no matter what program you are using (Word, Word Perfect,
>Acrobat, etc., etc.). If you don't add a header/footer to your document -
>there is nothing to print. I would think then that IE and Netscape are the
>same. These headers/footers have to be defined within the browser and then
>the printer is told to print them out. The printer is only going to print
>out what the program tells it to print. (i.e. in Word you can tell the
>printer to only print the headers on every third page). So now the question
>is - how (or can) you disable this, or I am just losing it?
>
>Thanks

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