At 23:22 2000-03-27 -0600, Bret Hughes wrote:
>Just today I needed to send a document to someone that I had no idea
>what they use for word processing. This was a word 97 document with a
>table that had been converted from an excel spreadsheet. I saved it in
>html from word, changed < font face = arial to <font face = arial,
>helvetica, sans serif ran tidy on it to clean up the 135 warnings due to
>misplaced tags and sent it. The problem is the table really needs to be
>printed in landscape orientation or the browsers will truncate the last
>couple of columns. I tried rtf but the table converted really poorly
>and I was looking for a solution that could be repeated pretty easily.
>This was the best I could come up with.
Try having Netscape print the HTML to file, using landscape orientation.
You'll get a postscript file that you can run ps2pdf on to get a PDF file.
PDF not as widely supported as MS Word, but it's cross platform.
<tangent>There's a fairly good free ghostview for Windows, but it's not
widely used.</tangent>
Tony
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