need suggestion for printing pages(to printer)

[mrmigu]

Hi
Ive got a program which needs to printoff some pages of dynamic data, so I dont know how long theyre going to be, and therefore wont know how many pages its going to be.

Im not quite sure how Im going to go about printing the file(UNIX server, so cant use the printer functions). Perhaps create an html file so its formatted properly, then use get_file_contents to get the output and run a shell script to print it. THough im not sure what width to make the table so itll fit on a page. Anyone have any better ideas?

I need to have the page number at the top of each page, as well as a header. Anyone have an idea how I could do this without keeping track of the number of lines?

Thanks to anyone who takes the time to help me out.

[beakerboy]

Maybe look into creating a PDF of your output. I know there are libraries out there that do that. That way you just need to supply the page size and the file will be generated. One library I've seen allows you to easily supply header and footer information (like page number).

Kevin

[mrmigu]

actually, tahts what ive been trying(or atleast converting to ps)

found a really nice script which does it (htmltops)
unfortunately, the header it takes is put on only 1 line
so now im hunting for another script 🙁