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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. Re:Landscape by King+of+the+World · · Score: 3, Informative
    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.

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  2. PDF plus poster/banner printer. by foniksonik · · Score: 5, Informative

    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.

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    A fool throws a stone into a well and a thousand sages can not remove it.
  3. This is easily done on IE 5.2 for OS X... by realgone · · Score: 5, Informative
    ...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*

  4. 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.