print with HTML or .pdf??

From: Ted Perkins ("Ted)
Date: 12/15/04


Date: Wed, 15 Dec 2004 12:43:01 -0800

I want to make some of my website content available for printing. After
reviewing the posts, printing from HTML pages looks tricky (i.e., margins,
page break control, etc.). I'm starting to think life will be easier for
myself and my viewers if I just create .pdf files that can be downloaded &
printed.
The downside of the .pdf approach is that I would have to effectively
duplicate my content - once in HTML and once in .pdf. It's a waste of
server space. This is relevant because some of these pages have a lot of
.jpgs. If it were just text I would not care.

So, if I just create simple, single column FrontPage tables of the
appropriate width for 80 characters, and load in my text and image links, can
I reasonably hope of a consistent layout across platforms?
Any hope at all of creating hard page breaks in the document?
Would a frontpage table allow a page break within a row? Or could I assume a
row would always break to the next page if it could not fit?
Thanks!!!

-- 
Ted


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