HTML output wonderings

First off, I am wondering if anyone knows why the process to output a roster
to HTML was changed between AB2 and AB3. The new process in AB3 seems kinda
clunky to me. I liked howin AB2 you just clicked on the save to HTML and it
just gave you a save as screen. You name it and point it somewhere and you
are done.

Also, has anyone else noticed a problem with printing the HTML rosters out
of Firefox? I just get a first page with header boxes and no text, then a
bunch of blank pages. Even shows up that way in Print Preview.

Any insights would be appreciated (Colen?)

Erik Johnson

On Fri, 6 May 2005, Chaintinker wrote:

> First off, I am wondering if anyone knows why the process to output a roster
> to HTML was changed between AB2 and AB3. The new process in AB3 seems kinda
> clunky to me. I liked howin AB2 you just clicked on the save to HTML and it
> just gave you a save as screen. You name it and point it somewhere and you
> are done.

There are more things you can do with printing now, various views and
custom fields you can pick. It's still pretty simple - save as html,
browse to where you want to save it and put in your filename, and hit
'output now'.

> Also, has anyone else noticed a problem with printing the HTML rosters out
> of Firefox? I just get a first page with header boxes and no text, then a
> bunch of blank pages. Even shows up that way in Print Preview.
>
> Any insights would be appreciated (Colen?)

Try it on a different view setting perhaps. I just printed mine out a few
moments ago without a problem. Do 'save as html' and then click 'view' -
pick 'roster view' from the dropdown on the right and hit 'save'. Then
output and bring it up in firefox and see if you can print normally that
time. If not.. I'm out of ideas :]

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Tib

[Colen]

At 10:45 AM 5/6/2005 -0700, you wrote:
>First off, I am wondering if anyone knows why the process to output a roster
>to HTML was changed between AB2 and AB3. The new process in AB3 seems kinda
>clunky to me. I liked howin AB2 you just clicked on the save to HTML and it
>just gave you a save as screen. You name it and point it somewhere and you
>are done.


There's now much more you can do when saving HTML. Even if you just want to
save something with all the default settings, it's only a couple of extra
mouse clicks - even less if you want to use the same filename you did last
time.

As a trade-off for this, you can now change the HTML settings, fonts,
configure the view and various advanced output options directly from the
'save to HTML' form.


>Also, has anyone else noticed a problem with printing the HTML rosters out
>of Firefox? I just get a first page with header boxes and no text, then a
>bunch of blank pages. Even shows up that way in Print Preview.


Do you have any very large units? There's a known bug with v3.0b where
trying to print units that take up more than 1 page will cause this behaviour.



Hope this helps,


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Colen McAlister (colen@wolflair.com)
Chief Engineer, Lone Wolf Development
http://www.wolflair.com/