Also don't forget to handle the risk of a button contact that; - closes and doesn't open; printer becomes toilet paper provider, - is repeatedly pressed by a child who is enjoying the process. Moving back up the stack; if you need tools for making images for display or printing from simple HTML, I've used the wkhtmltoimage program which is part of the "wkhtmltopdf" package. Where data maintenance is by humans who refuse to learn HTML, the "discount" package has a markdown program which can go in front. --=20 James Cameron http://quozl.netrek.org/ --=20 http://www.piclist.com/techref/piclist PIC/SX FAQ & list archive View/change your membership options at http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist .