outputting html to be read by word

[Crittar]

I have some code running on a unix box which generates some html code which is then emailed (using smtpmail) as an attachment.

I can read the attachment into word but want to be able to control where the page breaks occur within word.

Is there anything I can put out in the file I generate which word will pick up as a "hard" page break?

Thanks In Anticipation for your help.

 

[Joel J.J. Heber]

chr

plant a CHR(put the ascii decimal code for page break here)

and you will get your page break....

should work.

OUTPUT TO VALUE(email-file)
PUT
CHR(45). /*45 si an example */
OUTPUT CLOSE.



that is how I would do it...

I use CHR for line feeds, space and tab.....

works wonders for making reports with out COrvu or actuate

Joel

 

[Crittar]

Joel,

I have tried that - unfortunately with no success. I used chr(12) which should be a form feed but it just seems to be totally ignored but many thanks for your input.

I'm sure there must be SOME way of doing it - I just haven't found it yet.

The nearest thing I have found to a solution is to use the page_break_before or page_break_after in html. This almost works in that I can print a paged version of the document generated but have to print the whole document - I can't print individual pages. I really need a way of forcing a "hard" page break.

Anyone out there got any ideas?

 

[Try this]

1 -- Type "
2 -- press ctrl and v
3 -- press ctrl and L
4 -- type "
the result should be "^L"

Enjoy

 

[Crittar]

I tried the suggestion made by "guest" - Unfortunatley it doesnt seem to generate the "^L" as indicated.

Anyone out there got any further suggestions?

 

[warba]

I manually create an HTML document in word with page breaks that display correctly.
MS/Word generates the following code:

(body lang=EN-US style='tab-interval:.5in'>

(div class=Section1>

(p class=MsoNormal>Page One(/p>

(span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman";mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language:EN-US;
mso-bidi-language:AR-SA'>(br clear=all style='page-break-before:always'>
(/span>

(p class=MsoNormal>Page Two(/p>

(span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman";mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language:EN-US;
mso-bidi-language:AR-SA'>(br clear=all style='page-break-before:always'>
(/span>

(p class=MsoNormal>Page Three(o>(/o>(/p>

(/div>

(/body>

...so could you generate similar tags as required to break your pages? (replace the "(" with "<"... needed to do this to post correctly without rendering)

 

[Crittar]

Warren,

I will give this a try to see if it will work. I'll post the results as soon as I have tried it.

Thank you for your input!

 

[Crittar]

Warren,

I've given this a try and, sadly, I still have the same problem. The generated html will print fine from internet explorer BUT if I import it into word the paging is totally incorrect.

Also if I try to print a range of pages from word, word crashes.

:brick:

 

[Crittar]

I give up!! :dead:

Everything I try seems to either crash word or not do what I want it to do.

Seems the only option is to print direct from Internet Explorer and cut Word out of the equation.

Many thanks to those of you who attempted to help.

:up: