Printing HTML [Resolved]

[Arachnid13]

Does anyone know of a way to print HTML without using the Internet Explorer Object? I ask as I need a way to print multiple pages (only asking for the settings at the start and using them throughout), and to print without the headers and footers that IE adds by default

Thanks

[Paul M]

Wouldn't you need to first get the HTML from the site? Or do you already have it? You just want to print out specific parts of it?

[cheenu_vasan]

Can you refer the article,

http://www.vbforums.com/showthread.php?t=406671

[RobDog888]

But that code bank entry is all based upon the web browser control (IE).

If you download the html source of the page using Inet control you can write it to a file for printing locally as any regular file you would do.

[Arachnid13]

The HTML is stored locally. RobDog, how would you print an html file locally using code without getting the header/footers?

[ooKmonkey]

I managed to do this using the ie control

all I did was when I printed, changed the registry so it didn't add all the header and footer infor , then when it had finished printing it put it back to default.

maybe not the nicest way of doing it but it worked for me

[Hack]

How about something as simple as

Private Function PrintTextFile(sTextFile As String) As String
If Dir(sTextFile) <> vbNullString Then
    Open sTextFile For Binary As #1
    PrintTextFile = Input(LOF(1), 1)
    Close #1
End If
End Function

Private Sub Command1_Click()
Screen.MousePointer = vbHourglass
Printer.Print PrintTextFile("c:\MyPage.htm")
Printer.EndDoc
Screen.MousePointer = vbDefault
End Sub

[cheenu_vasan]

ShellExecute 0&, "Print", "C:\Innovation\Temp\<filename>.html", "", "", vbNormalFocus

Try the above code...

[Arachnid13]

Not able to test either right now but Hack wont your solution just print the source code? And cheenu_vasan all your way does is print it with internet explorer behind the scenes so it will again rely on the registry values, i think i'm gonna have to use ooKmonkeys method and edit the registry, does anyone know if the values are always in HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\PageSetup? or are they in different places for earlier versions of ie?

[Hack]

Not able to test either right now but Hack wont your solution just print the source code?

Yes, but this

The HTML is stored locally.

tells me that you have a local file of HTML that you want printed.

[Arachnid13]

My apologies hack, i have the html locally because it's my program thats generating it, and i want to print it as it would look when rendered in a browser, anyway i solved the second part of my problem with the registry editing myself so this thread is now resolved.

Thanks everyone

[Hack]

Post your resolution as it might benefit someone else with the same or similiar problem.

[Arachnid13]

No problem,

I used the module attached by schoolbusdriver in post #7 of this thread:
http://www.vbforums.com/showthread.php?t=491870

The UpdateKey and GetKeyValue procedures were exactly what i needed