Print invoice - JSP

[Kavita Shivani]

Hi Everyone,
I am working on an application in which, I display an invoice and onclick of the print button, I need to print the invoice. I was suggest to use window.print(); but I am not sure if that is for printing the web page. I just want the Invoice table on my page to be printed without any other HTML things on the page.
Please suggest on how this is done generally.

thanks,
Kavitha.

[Bear Bibeault]

Print on the server or the client?

[Kavita Shivani]

on the client side.

[Ankit Garg]

Once I had such a requirement, so what I did was, give an ID to the specific table to be printed, opened a new window through javascript, put the table (with the ID) as content of the new window and called the print on that new window. I think you can also do that with CSS for printing (a small tutorial here) but I've not used it so not sure. If there is any other simpler way, then I don't know about it ...

[Kavita Shivani]

Thanks everyone for the response.

Kavitha.

[Samuel Behrman]

If you have an executing JSP script, can't you just stream the report to
a file or to a printing service like lpr? Then let the print subsystem
deal with printing or transmission over a slow link.

If you're asking for an automagic way of doing this, sorry, I don't know.

Hmm, if you print to RTF, then use a (local) JSP or Java app to remove
all the formatting, images, etc., would you have what you want? Just a
thought. Java does have an HTML/XML parser that would be useful reading
an RTF file, I think.

[Kavita Shivani]

Thanks Samuel,
Yes I am thinking of something like that for my periodic reports probably I will save the reports in pdf. If I find that easy, I might as well make it same for all sorts of printings in my application.
regards,
Kavitha.

[Eric Pascarello]

Guessing no one that answered so far realizes there can be different styles sheets that can be added to the document to hide info that you do not want to print/show.

Look into Print Media CSS

Eric