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Question

My website is an intranet for an enterprise, The site contains data about clients, pricing etc stored in a MySQL database but this is not the point.

The site needs to be able to generate bills using the different data like the clients name, address etc ...

The question is simple, which way should I use to generate these pages? I tried to generate a html page but the printing is too much related to the browser, some keep things some don't and I don't like this.

should I generate pdf pages instead and how? thanks you for your answers

EDIT: the site is build using PhP and Javascript

The page need to contain a huge amont of data and therefore can't be handled with html printing

Answer 1

You should indeed generate pdf's. Printing html is quirky at best and you have no foolproof way to ie. make page breaks or force landscape printing.

You can ofcourse us a custom print only css, but that is still very limited.

Also alot of browsers will allways print a tekst on the header and footer on each page, unless the end user disables that specific option.

PDF is the only decent way to go to provide printing.