Rails - Feb 2006 - multi-page prints

I am struggling with the concept of multi-page forms. I have a number of
forms all done in html and they look really good. I don''t see how html
can support page breaks for printed pages but perhaps there is a way to
do that. I haven''t spent all that much time on it and I do see that css
seems to have some commands for printing functions.

I was playing around with setting up loops in controller code and found
that I couldn''t use render => :action within the loop because ruby
complained (sensibly I suppose) that I couldn''t have multiple renders.

So I have installed the gem pdf-writer which is interesting but it has
it''s own markup language which means back to the drawing board and I
won''t have the tools that I have for html and I can''t see any
method for
it to use the html forms that I''ve already created.

I''m wondering how other people handle printing...especially multiple
page forms - and even most specifically, multiple pages within a loop of
objects - i.e. pseudo code...
  for product in @product
    print page
  end

Thanks

Craig

Have you looked in to partials? While not the perfect solution they may 
help.

Also CSS has a property called page-break that can set where pages break 
when printing (not sure if it''s supported in all browsers) it might be 
worth a look

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