| multiTextPage.pl was designed to allow the MultiFunction
Printer (MFP) Test group to generate large text files to
test with high capacity MFP's and associated output
devices. Plain text pages are expected to be downloaded
and printed using simple viewers or editors. An HTML
page may also be generated, but browsers are not very
adept at handling files with tens of thousand of rows,
so this may not be as practical. Regardless of the
output selected (HTML or Text), it will have the same
general look and feel, as shown below using the default
layout of Edge-3, 100 pages and 50 rows. |
| Page 1 of 100 |
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| 1 | 1 | 1 | | 2 | 2 | 2 | | 3 | 3 | 3 | | ... | ... | ... | | Page 1 of 100 |
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| Practical upper limits have been set for 99999 Pages
and 999 rows. A reasonable text editor can display a
file of this size, however a web browser cannot.
Browsers tested during development cannot manage
displaying more than about 800 pages with 50 rows. Text
pages are built with a default width of 80 characters,
and will have a form-feed added to the end of each
specified page. For web pages, the width is much more
arbitrary since the browser can adjust the width to fit
the page as well as the printer. If rows are set between
30 and 60, there will be a natural page break when the
web page is printed. This is due to browsers making an
effort to break pages at table boundaries when
printing. |