Printing a database report

[M. Uli Kusterer]

On 09/04/07, Steve Steinitz <steinitz at datatactics.com.au> wrote:
> I currently have fine, down-to-the-pixel control over the report and
> I'm not sure how I'd accomplish that in html.  But its certainly along
> the lines of what I was thinking.
>
> I'm open to other ideas.

 You could just load what you need into a cache, and then use that
cache to not have to re-fetch the information you want to output each
time. Similarly, you could cache dimensions of parts you've already
printed, and remove their data from your cache, so you save RAM and
you only have to draw things twice that cross several pages.

 That would take less RAM, and thus prevent unnecessary swap-outs to
hard disk that could cost unneeded electricity on laptops.

Cheers,
M. Uli Kusterer
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