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How to do simple multi-page printing on a PC?
pmc:
Sounds like a serious noob question and it's probably already been addressed here, but I can't seem to figure it out or find a related thread.
The Windows Photo editor (I forget what they call it) and Visio, and even Gimp 1.2 under Red Hat 7.2 all seem to push the same agenda with me. I think Adobe Acrobat does this too.
I want to make a temporary/test marquee on tiled Legal or Letter formated paper and am printing a 24.5 x 7 inch JPEG on a HP Color LaserJet 4550 PS.
Every damn piece of software I use wants to scale the image to fit paper. That seems reasonable at first. So I change the scaling to 100% or disable "fit to page" or whatever it takes to get back to 24.5 x 7. The result is that I can only seem to print a single page with a single portion of the marquee. Never can I say "print all pages that has stuff on it" like MS-Excel which will gladly print a zillion pages even if each page only has a single cell on it. So I never get all the parts of the Marquee laid out over several pages.
Now I just had a thought -- the old Illustrator used to let you create a 9-page blank document and then create or lay a big image down across them all. It'd print each page which you could tile into a single large image. But you had to create the underlying page structure before getting what you want (i.e., it was a function of paper and not the image on the paper). I bet I can make Visio do that.
Any other ideas? How are you doing it? I'm amazed this has me stumped...
AlanS17:
Well it's a very low-tech method but it'll work if you jsut want a preview... I don't know what software you have so this is the fastest way...
If you like the way Excel works, copy it into Excel. If you like Word more, use Word! TADA!
(I know it's not a very professional solution but it provides fast results.)
pmc:
--- Quote from: AlanS17 on June 23, 2003, 05:30:54 pm ---Well it's a very low-tech method but it'll work if you jsut want a preview... I don't know what software you have so this is the fastest way...
If you like the way Excel works, copy it into Excel. If you like Word more, use Word! TADA!
(I know it's not a very professional solution but it provides fast results.)
--- End quote ---
Ahhh.... wouldna thought of that! copy-n-paste.
In Visio I found the controls that let you force the page size to be the size of the image or the custom size. Interestingly, that isn't enough. I also had to tell it use Letter paper and then print it landscape on 3x1 pages (fit to 3 pages x 1 page but at 1:1). That did it.
But in any of the other apps that don't give you that level of control, I still don't know how I'd do it. Pasting into Excel sure would work. Hmmmmm. pasting into Word and then rotating 90-degress would get it to print on 3 vertical pages, but I'd question the image quality. But I'm sure it'd work.
Thanks for the feedback.
IceCold:
I copy and pasted to wordpad, but it made my image smaller, so I wasted 2 pages of photo paper :(
tmasman:
Just crop out 1 page at a time & print it that way.
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