摘要 |
Techniques are disclosed for using the display rendering engine of a web browser to render content in a form suitable for output by a printer. The content is described by a content description, which may describe the content using any appropriate language, such as the Hypertext Markup language (HTML). An output device description describes the printer according to input parameters of the web browser display rendering engine. The content description and the output device description are provided as inputs to the web browser display rendering engine, which generates the rendered content. The rendered content, once generated, may be captured, stored, and transmitted to the printer, which may print the rendered content. Some or all of the steps just described may be performed without displaying the rendered content on a display monitor. The web browser display rendering engine may be the display rendering engine of a conventional web browser. |