Printing Reports

[Manjunath Subramanian]

Hello All,
I am using a jsp for printing a report in a table format having more than 100 columns.
I know the printing mechanism in java.awt.But how do i print from a jsp file.This is urgently required.Kindly help.
Thanks in advance,
Manjunath

[wei zhy]

Originally posted by Manjunath Subramanian:
Hello All,
I am using a jsp for printing a report in a table format having more than 100 columns.
I know the printing mechanism in java.awt.But how do i print from a jsp file.This is urgently required.Kindly help.
Thanks in advance,
Manjunath

You can watch the java.awt.printJob class.Maybe you will get some useful information?

[Manjunath Subramanian]

I don't have access to the api,but i will surely check this out.Again, as i said earlier this is only for printing awt components.I don't think this class will have any utility for printing from a jsp which is a part of a seperate API.
Thanks anyway...
Can any body help me?
thanks,
Manjunath

[Pranit Saha]

Hi,
I think u r able to display the datas in the html tables.. if u want to print the same u can create a printer friendly version.. which will display the data as it'll be displayed in the printer..
This is the way i did before..
Thanks and regards,
Pranit..

[Manjunath Subramanian]

Thanks Pranit
But my million $ question is HOW TO DO THAT?
thanks,
Manjunath

[William Brogden]

The only kind of output a JSP can do is as HTML that will be interpreted by a browser.
The best way to approach this is to make a plain HTML page that creates the layout you want first. Any book on HTML can help you with the tags.
Only after you get the prototype looking like you want should you try to turn it into a JSP.
Bill