On Tue, 12 Sep 2006, Bryce Harrington wrote:
I think basically what the requestor is asking for is some mechanism to overflow the document to multiple pages on the printer. In other words:
- Create a new document
- Set document size to 8.5" x 22"
- Draw things all over the place
- Print.
Ideally, the printer should spit out 2 pages with stuff printed on them. In reality (on my printer anyway), only a single page is printed.
While I know there's an official way to handle this via multipage SVG, it would be nice in the meantime, to have some (perhaps toggleable) way to make the printer overflow stuff.
Isn't multipage SVG about having more than one 'canvas' in a single SVG document? (I went looking but had difficulty finding out more information about multipage SVG and links pointing to nothing relevant as if might have been removed from current drafts.)
I was under the distinct impression that if for example you had an A3 page (corresponding to the svg viewbox or height width) it would still be the job of the printer to figure out how to print it on two A4 pages.