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Printing Wide Web Pages?

Posted by Cliff on from the they-don't-make-printers-this-size dept.

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?"

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  1. Huh? by spencerogden · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Can't the pictures just be downloaded seperately and then printed with a proper photo program?

    Did ask Slashdot just become tech support?

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  2. Re:Landscape by Mister+Proper · · Score: 2, Insightful
    This is pretty lame.

    A stupid question was asked and posted by an editor. Everyone (at this moment) giving the correct answer is moderated down as Flamebait.

    Is this an all-time low for /.?

  3. Is it just me... by dimator · · Score: 2, Insightful

    ...or are Ask Slashdot questions slowly degrading to crap?

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    1. Re:Is it just me... by dev0n · · Score: 3, Insightful

      just wondering how this can be considered crap.. upon reading the question, all i could think was "damn, i have no idea how i'd go about doing that" -- and that, to me, is something that a GOOD question does. makes me think.

      grr, i'm off topic. it just pisses me off when idiots slam a topic just because they don't care about it or already know the answer. if you don't care, don't read it. and if you already know the answer.. post it, for christ's sake.

      phew. bedtime for this cranky girl, i think. heh.

  4. Pathetic by Qrlx · · Score: 2, Insightful

    This is the most pathetic response to an ask slashdot ever.

    Like half of the people have suggested "landscape" when it's pretty obvious that's not what the guy is asking about. He's got a page that's like ten screens wide. Printing in landscape will give him maybe another half-a-screen of width. The question is: How to get the next eight screens of width?

    The only thing I can think of on this one would be to somehow render the HTML page in PostScript (or eps). I don't know what out there would do that. Once you have PostScript, it should be pretty easy to make the printer do what you want, even if it means rotating it 90 degrees so it's on its side.

    If someone could post a link to a nefarious page-widening post that would be cool, too. I can't see them anymore since I stopped using IE.