de.signe.us http://de.signe.us a bit of tech and design Mon, 10 May 2010 14:13:22 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 printing an invisible iframe http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/designeus/~3/RvJArEkymSM/ http://de.signe.us/2010/05/printing-an-invisible-iframe/#comments Mon, 10 May 2010 14:11:17 +0000 allixsenos http://de.signe.us/?p=29 When I want to let the user print something, and the situation calls for a completely different data layout, my usual solution is to have a print-specific page which I then load in an invisible IFRAME. The print-specific page has a body onload=”window.print();” and everyone’s happy, right?

Wrong. Enter IE to complicate things.

IE prints the entire containing page, instead of just the IFRAME.

After many failed attempts, I’ve discovered the following solution does exactly what I need:

<head>
    <script>
    function printself() {
        try {
            document.execCommand('print', false, null);
        } catch (ex) {
            window.print();
        }
    }
    </script>
</head>
<body onload="printself();">
    /print-specific content here/
</body>

Hope this saves at least one poor soul.

credit: bytes.com/…/629926-ie7-printing-iframe-solution

]]> http://de.signe.us/2010/05/printing-an-invisible-iframe/feed/ 0 http://de.signe.us/2010/05/printing-an-invisible-iframe/ Windows 7 x64 Cisco VPN http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/designeus/~3/JJSL-b6LX6w/ http://de.signe.us/2009/10/windows-7-x64-cisco-vpn/#comments Mon, 26 Oct 2009 13:10:22 +0000 allixsenos http://de.signe.us/?p=3 [UPDATE 2010-04-25: Cisco released a 64 bit version of their client - you can download it off their site. I have not tried it, so can't speak to whether it works or not]

The Cisco VPN client does NOT support 64 bit Windows. They have officially announced they will not be releasing a 64 bit version of their client and people wishing to use Cisco VPN on 64 bit Windows should upgrade to something called AnyConnect which, as I understand it, requires a hardware/software upgrade at the VPN gateway end. No-go for a single person wanting to switch to x64.

An hour of Googling the topic later, this is my discovery: you’re screwed.

The options are:

While the Shrew Soft client is a well known alternative (judging by the number of blog/forum posts mentioning it), it’s a pain to set up if you don’t have a .pcf profile for your VPN connection… After losing a good hour to find and set it up (and writing the first version of this post), I got a tip from Dinko Korunic to try vpnc… and it worked like a charm.

The configuration is dead simple – gateway, group name and password, username and password and you’re off…

I haven’t actually tested Shrew or vpnc enough to talk about how good/fast/stable they are, but as far as setup goes, vpnc wins.

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