Printing Wide Web Pages?

dmayle asks: "I'm an origami folder, and I have some diagrams stored as web pages on a cd. I'd like to print them out (since folding in front of a computer monitor is not the easiest of tasks), but the web pages have all of the steps laid out horizontally. I've tried using Mozilla, Opera, Netscape, and even IE (on a windows platform), but I can't seem to find a printing engine that can handle wide web pages. Am I missing something? Hasn't anyone ever tried to print wide web pages before? What I'm asking is: Do you folks know of any utilities (or browsers) that I've missed that can handle printing wide web pages?"

Comments

Landscape

[halgary]

Can't you just set the paper orientation to Landscape and click Print? What is so hard about that?

Re:Landscape

[King of the World]

It's the wrong answer. Printing out in landscape will still print the page vertically. Vertical printing is different to printing on a wider page (which is all landscape is). For example,

They want a page printed like (pipe is the page's edge)

1,2,3,4 | 5,6,7,8 | 9,10,11 | 12

and not jumbled like

1,2 | 5,6 | 9,10 | 12

3,4 | 7,8 | 11

The former can be joined together and the content will still be readable across the page.

Horizontal printing is about continuing sentences and content across all 4 pages before making a line-break, when you return to the 1st page again. I wouldn't do this for text but for diagrams it makes a lot of sense.

PDF plus poster/banner printer.

[foniksonik]

Save it as a PDF. Easier if you're in OS X but MS Word can probably do it as well. Then print landscape on a large format poster/banner printer.

Some Epsons and HP's can print unlimited length or very long 'banner' sized images on rolls of paper.

Take your PDF to Kinkos and have them do it for you.

This is easily done on IE 5.2 for OS X...

[realgone]

...and probably most other 5.X versons of IE for Mac.

1. File -> Print Preview
2. Click the radio button for "Print Wide Pages"
3. There is no step 3. There is no step 3! =)

This will force the printer to tile out-of-bounds content in all directions, so that a web page 3 screens wide and 2 screens deep will print as:

+---+---+---+
| 1 | 3 | 5 |
+---+---+---+
| 2 | 4 | 6 |
+---+---+---+

All this hinges on you having access to a Mac, of course. Can't really help you there. *cough*

Print to PDF then print to fit or edit from there

[SPeW]

if you have acrobat installed you can just print to distiller of PDF maker and then you can size the pages accordingly in acrobat when you go to actually print the pages.