Thread: can't get background to print

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I altered the cvs/sql-ledger.cvs to include the background-image:
(pathto it);} but I still am not getting the background to print... 

thx 
lee 
-=== 

printing has nothing to do with sql-ledger
actually it's your browser's bussiness.
(if you are using IE look at tools/options/advanced for printing the
background)

and PLEASE, do not send html mail to mailing lists...

/sergio

----- Original Message -----
From: "lee johnson" le...@im...

> I altered the cvs/sql-ledger.cvs to include the background-image:
> (pathto it);} but I still am not getting the background to print...

On Sat, 2002-02-02 at 18:55, Sergio A. Kessler wrote:
> printing has nothing to do with sql-ledger
> actually it's your browser's bussiness.
> (if you are using IE look at tools/options/advanced for printing the
> background)
> 
> and PLEASE, do not send html mail to mailing lists...

first off it was not my intent 'to' send html email..if something snuck
in it was an accidental paste nothing more :(..I have html send off by
default..:)

secondly if it has nothing to do with sql-ledger then I guess the person
that told me about editing css/sql-ledger.css was mistaken go fig..

and I do not use IE,. so I use netscape 4.78 and yes I've looked
everywhere and see nowhere to set in netscape the ability to print
background..I 'thought' sql-ledger was utter customizable according to
docs..totally customizeable with html to make invoices look just like
you want...

thx
lee
-=====

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "lee johnson" <le...@im...>

[...]
> secondly if it has nothing to do with sql-ledger then I guess the person
> that told me about editing css/sql-ledger.css was mistaken go fig..

I think so, using that you change the background,
but printing is another thing...

> and I do not use IE,. so I use netscape 4.78 and yes I've looked
> everywhere and see nowhere to set in netscape the ability to print
> background..I 'thought' sql-ledger was utter customizable according to
> docs..totally customizeable with html to make invoices look just like
> you want...

printing is a browser thing, in IE I have a checkbox for
printing the background of pages or not.
what about if you try mozilla ?

/sergio

> secondly if it has nothing to do with sql-ledger then I
> guess the person that told me about editing
> css/sql-ledger.css was mistaken go fig..
> and I do not use IE,. so I use netscape 4.78 and yes I've
> looked everywhere and see nowhere to set in netscape the
> ability to print background..I 'thought' sql-ledger was
> utter customizable according to docs..totally
> customizeable with html to make invoices look just like
> you want...

Please, keep the tone on this thread. We are all here to=20
help each other.

First, the guy who told you how to change css was allright,=20
if you want that the backgroung appears in all the screen=20
that use the class body.

If you want to use a special body class to invoices, define=20
in css and change your invoice templates, or change=20
directly your invoice templates: In any measure, this=20
"customization" it is just plain HTML, nothing to do with=20
the primary purpose of SQL-Ledger (search for HTML tutorial=20
in the Internet).=20

Second, if you can _see_ the background image in your=20
Netscape, it will be printed, can you see it in the first=20
place?

--=20
C=E9sar Villanueva
SuSE Linux C.A.
"First they ignore you. Then they laugh at you.
Then they fight you. Then you win." [Gandhi]=20

El Dom 03 Feb 2002 16:54, lee johnson escribi=F3:
> No I can not see in first place which I wondered about
> but I did not know if it was par for course or.......but
> yes I did wonder..and yes I changed in both template and
> css so I dunno why it isn't showing in sql-ledger........

I made my little homework on the issue and this is what I=20
have found. When you change the=20
/templates/user/invoice.html and change the=20
<body color=3Dffffff> tag to
<body backgroung=3D"image.gif"> (image.gif is located in the=20
same directory as invoice.html) the invoice _did_ print the=20
bg image.

You  can see the image entering in=20
SETUP/TEMPLATES/INVOICE.=20

You  must remember that if the image is smaller than the=20
page it will be appear tiled. Solution: use a image=20
processing program to paste in the right position against a=20
transparent background and mnipulete the image itself to=20
have a certain degree of transparency, so it can be more of=20
a watermark, not a solid one.

> my 'tone' only came through because I felt the remark
> about 'html' mail was unkind that could have been sent
> privately to avoid embarrasement..I'm an old timer and I
> do not post html email 'on purpose ' :)

The truth is taht I was surprised about the remark because=20
_I_ did NOT get your original message as HTML (I check the=20
source of the page and it was plain text.

Maybe it the other guys configuration=20

>
> cu and thx
> lee

Greetings from Venezuela

--=20
C=E9sar Villanueva
SuSE Linux C.A.
"First they ignore you. Then they laugh at you.
Then they fight you. Then you win." [Gandhi]=20

On Sun, 3 Feb 2002, Cesar Villanueva wrote:

> > secondly if it has nothing to do with sql-ledger then I
> > guess the person that told me about editing
> > css/sql-ledger.css was mistaken go fig..

> Second, if you can _see_ the background image in your
> Netscape, it will be printed, can you see it in the first
> place?

Or here's another approach: Try printing http://dr.jones.dk/info/ and see
if the background shows up on _whatever_ browser you are using ("netscape"
is using for 2 different engines - the classic Netscape and the completely
rewritten Mozilla in Netscape 6+).

If it does not print there either, then your browser (configuration) is to
blame, not SQL-Ledger. One cannot blame SQL-Ledger for interpreting html
wrongly, just as one cannot blame the browser for not printing color on a
black/white printer.

If it does , and not on your hack on SQL-Ledger then compare the sources,
make whatever changes are necessary to make it work for SQL-Ledger as well
and report back on this so we can all gain from your work.

I agree that this is not the list for discussing how to optimally code
html, but on the other hand we all want a best possible SQL-Ledger, and
that includes print output. In other words: hints, suggestions and tweaks
are great, but don't blame SQL-Ledger if html generally doesn't work.

 - Jonas
"The guy that kept a non-perl-hacking html-related thread alive..."

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