Bryce Harrington wrote:
On Tue, Sep 12, 2006 at 10:06:06AM +0200, Ulf Erikson wrote:
On 9/12/06, Bryce Harrington <bryce@...961...> wrote:
On Tue, Sep 12, 2006 at 02:44:01AM +0200, Jon jts wrote:
In my never ending search for a solution to my printing problem (printing custom sized documents) I can across the following:
Hi Ulf,
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.
We're talking about print tiling here. There are a few duplicate rfe's in the tracker for this already. The closest I've come to finding a solution to this problem is the Poster utility from KDE Print.
http://printing.kde.org/downloads/index.php
I've never actually tried it, but there is rumor of a win32 version available on the web.
If your real desire is not to spread pieces of your drawing around on standard paper, but print on larger paper, then you are going to have to read your printer manual. To my knowledge most printers only support certain minimum and certain maximum page sizes.
Aaron Spike