somehollis

A web app I've been building has the final result of generating a report for the end user. I'm trying to whip up some css for print media so that they can print it w/out wasting ink/paper on all the other junk on the screen.

The only real problem I'm having is aesthetic. When the report table is generated server side, I'm setting the background of every other row to be a very light gray (see attached jpg) to make large tables a little bit easier to read. This is done with the standardIt seems that all the major browsers turn off background colors when printing (for obvious reasons), but I lose my stripes.

Does anyone know another way to achieve this same effect?

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DaWei

I would recommend using ezPDF, which is free, or something similar. Here's a reproduction of one of my reports. It has been compressed 85%, so allow for the artifacts caused by that.

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somehollis

Sounds like that is probably the best solution. I searched a little more, and the only non-pdf option I came up with was to instruct the user to set their browser to print background colors. I can safely bet that this is a little much to ask of some of my users...

My site is written in python, so it looks like reportlab is going to be my best bet for pdf generation. Have you ever used it?

DaWei

Sorry, I haven't.

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