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Re: JS/ECMA script created table question

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Christoph Michael Becker wrote:

> Mel Smith wrote:
>>     (btw, another option -- which I may have to use- is to build a pdf
>>     file
>> at the server, and then send a link to the client to *that* file.  But
>> this means I may have to save this file on the server, or maybe email
>> file to the client. Both are unpalatable options for me.)
> 
> There is, however, a third option: build the PDF dynamically on each
> respective request and deliver it as application/pdf.  In your case that
> seems to be unnecessarily complicated and wasteful, but there might be
> use cases where this technique could be reasonable deployed.

It is the best current practice for small PDF documents that have to be
up-to-date.
 
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JS/ECMA script created table question "Mel Smith" <med_cutout_syntel@aol.com> - 2013-11-24 11:33 -0700
  Re: JS/ECMA script created table question Christoph Michael Becker <cmbecker69@arcor.de> - 2013-11-24 20:21 +0100
    Re: JS/ECMA script created table question "Mel Smith" <med_cutout_syntel@aol.com> - 2013-11-24 13:57 -0700
      Re: JS/ECMA script created table question Christoph Michael Becker <cmbecker69@arcor.de> - 2013-11-28 16:10 +0100
        Re: JS/ECMA script created table question Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2013-11-28 16:39 +0100
        Re: JS/ECMA script created table question "Mel Smith" <med_cutout_syntel@aol.com> - 2013-11-28 08:46 -0700
  Re: JS/ECMA script created table question danca <cyberdanny@tiscalinet.it> - 2013-11-24 23:58 +0100
    Re: JS/ECMA script created table question "Mel Smith" <med_cutout_syntel@aol.com> - 2013-11-24 18:24 -0700
      Re: JS/ECMA script created table question "Mel Smith" <med_cutout_syntel@aol.com> - 2013-11-24 20:16 -0700
        Re: JS/ECMA script created table question [a bit OT] danca <cyberdanny@tiscalinet.it> - 2013-11-25 10:55 +0100
          Re: JS/ECMA script created table question [a bit OT] "Mel Smith" <med_cutout_syntel@aol.com> - 2013-11-25 08:44 -0700

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