Printing envelopes

[TerryMiddleton]

Surely it has to be simply. Is it possible to print an envelope from a
browser window using CSS, Flash, ??? User opens a record, selects print and a
letter and envelope need to come out. I believe I've gotten the letter to
word, but how in the world do you do envelopes? I guess you format it such
that if they put an envelope into the manual feed it would work, but surely
there is a better way. Has anyone seen this or tackled this before? Terry

[Jamesy]

You are right in the way you are thinking.

The page you make is "X" pixels wide to make sure it's the right width when
the envelope is printed...

James


"TerryMiddleton" <webforumsuser@macromedia.com> wrote in message
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> Surely it has to be simply. Is it possible to print an envelope from a
> browser window using CSS, Flash, ??? User opens a record, selects print
> and a
> letter and envelope need to come out. I believe I've gotten the letter to
> word, but how in the world do you do envelopes? I guess you format it
> such
> that if they put an envelope into the manual feed it would work, but
> surely
> there is a better way. Has anyone seen this or tackled this before?
> Terry
>

[stevenlmas]

One problem you have is that some printers print envelopes the long way (text
needs to rotate 90 degrees) and some print the short way. Depending on what
needs to be printed one way I did this in the past was to create a 3 row/1 col
table that had the address in the top cell and the body of the letter in the
remaining 2. Then you can fold the piece of paper w/ the address on the outside
and staple or tape the paper closed, slap a stamp on it and mail. This is not
a solution for something that needs to be in an envelope, but it works for a
newsletter/flyer type thing. You need to convert inches to pixels to set up
the row heights. Most monitors are around 96dpi so for 8.5x11 you need to set
the table to 8.5 X 96 pixels wide (816) and 11X 96 pixels tall (1056). Then
divide the height by 3 (352) to get the height of the three rows.
______________________________________________ |
stamp here | |
John Doe |
Address | City, State, Zip |

| ______________________________________________ |

| Dear John,
|
| Body of letter here
|
|

______________________________________________ |
continues here...
|
|
|
|

|

______________________________________________

[CMBergin]

Use CSS so you can define your dimensions in inches. The user can rotate
the page as needed for his particular printer from the print preview screen.
Quick and dirty (untested) example:
<table id="envelope">
<tr>
<td>From Address</td>
<td>&nbsp;</td>
<td>(Stamp)</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>&nbsp;</td>
<td colspan="2">Address</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>&nbsp;</td>
<td colspan="2">City, State ZIP</td>
</tr>

CSS:
table#envelope {
width=8in;
height=6in;
}

I have no idea how big standard envelopes are, though. I just guessed. :)
"TerryMiddleton" <webforumsuser@macromedia.com> wrote in message
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> Surely it has to be simply. Is it possible to print an envelope from a
> browser window using CSS, Flash, ??? User opens a record, selects print

and a

> letter and envelope need to come out. I believe I've gotten the letter to
> word, but how in the world do you do envelopes? I guess you format it

such

> that if they put an envelope into the manual feed it would work, but

surely

> there is a better way. Has anyone seen this or tackled this before?

Terry

>