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Jim Thompson

Jan 1, 1970
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Is there any way to print, with Word, so that I can get multiple
sheets wide that I can tape together?

...Jim Thompson
 
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Spehro Pefhany

Jan 1, 1970
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Is there any way to print, with Word, so that I can get multiple
sheets wide that I can tape together?

...Jim Thompson

IIRC, Open Office will do this, at least the PowerPoint-type program
will.

Best regards,
Spehro Pefhany
 
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John B

Jan 1, 1970
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Is there any way to print, with Word, so that I can get multiple
sheets wide that I can tape together?

...Jim Thompson

Sorry Jim, the question doesn't make sense. Do you mean banner style
pages? More detail of your application is needed.
 
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Jim Thompson

Jan 1, 1970
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Sorry Jim, the question doesn't make sense. Do you mean banner style
pages? More detail of your application is needed.

Yep, "Banner" is what I guess it is called in the non-CAD world ;-) In
my schematic and graphic programs it's called "tiled' printing.

...Jim Thompson
 
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John B

Jan 1, 1970
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Yep, "Banner" is what I guess it is called in the non-CAD world ;-) In
my schematic and graphic programs it's called "tiled' printing.

...Jim Thompson

So, how large is your original page and how many pages do you want to
spread it over?
 
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Jim Thompson

Jan 1, 1970
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So, how large is your original page and how many pages do you want to
spread it over?

It's roughly 8.5" x 19" (landscape), so I'd like to print it onto 2
8.5" x 11" and tape together. (It's all text... scaled onto a single
8.5" x 11" it's hard to read.)

...Jim Thompson
 
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John B

Jan 1, 1970
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So, how large is your original page and how many pages do you want to
spread it over?

I've just checked and can't find any method in Word, but my printer
driver (Lexmark P4350) does it. There's an 'N-up' mode (multiple Word
pages per printed sheet) and 'Poster' mode which appears to be what you
need.
 
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Jim Thompson

Jan 1, 1970
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I've just checked and can't find any method in Word, but my printer
driver (Lexmark P4350) does it. There's an 'N-up' mode (multiple Word
pages per printed sheet) and 'Poster' mode which appears to be what you
need.

:-( My hp P2015dn seems not to have 'N-up' :-(

...Jim Thompson
 
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John B

Jan 1, 1970
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;-) >> > In my schematic and graphic programs it's called "tiled'
printing. >> >

:-( My hp P2015dn seems not to have 'N-up' :-(

...Jim Thompson

Yep, the Lexmark does it. I've just made an A3 page and printed it on a
3x3 matrix of A4 pages. Looks great.

Thanks for making me go and do that, I've never tried it before. ;-)

Have a look here http://welcome.hp.com/country/us/en/support.html and
see if you can find a new driver with those features.

Alternatively, you could try making a PDF file with a custom paper size
(I use PdfCreator) and getting a local print shop to run you off a copy.
 
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Rich Webb

Jan 1, 1970
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Jim said:
Yep, "Banner" is what I guess it is called in the non-CAD world ;-) In
my schematic and graphic programs it's called "tiled' printing.

Somewhat of a kludge, but try exporting it to PDF (using one of the free
third-party PDF generators, if necessary) and then print that file from
Acrobat or Foxit using the Print Zoom and Current View options.

Painful enough that you'll probably only want to do it once but if it's
a one-off that might be enough ...
 
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Jim Thompson

Jan 1, 1970
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Somewhat of a kludge, but try exporting it to PDF (using one of the free
third-party PDF generators, if necessary) and then print that file from
Acrobat or Foxit using the Print Zoom and Current View options.

Painful enough that you'll probably only want to do it once but if it's
a one-off that might be enough ...

Not bad actually., particularly since I have a "normal" 8.5" height,
then a "wide" page. So "fit height", print view, slide right, print
view, will work great!

Thanks for the pointer!

...Jim Thompson
 
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Rich Grise

Jan 1, 1970
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Sorry Jim, the question doesn't make sense. Do you mean banner style
pages? More detail of your application is needed.

Yep, "Banner" is what I guess it is called in the non-CAD world ;-) In
my schematic and graphic programs it's called "tiled' printing.[/QUOTE]

Of course, you realize that this isn't an electronics design
question. ;-)
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Cheers!
Rich
 
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John Popelish

Jan 1, 1970
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Jim Thompson wrote:
Have you tried specifying a large custom paper size
(actually page size)? If I do that, then print, my printer
driver asks me if I want to print the page on multiple sheets.
 
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Jim Thompson

Jan 1, 1970
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Jim Thompson wrote:
Have you tried specifying a large custom paper size
(actually page size)? If I do that, then print, my printer
driver asks me if I want to print the page on multiple sheets.

I'll try that and see what it does. Thanks!

...Jim Thompson
 
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mpm

Jan 1, 1970
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Is there any way to print, with Word, so that I can get multiple
sheets wide that I can tape together?

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I'm suprised this isn't a feature (ehh, "bug") in Microsoft Word. (?!)
You would think given MS's long history of stupid stuff, you'd have to
go out of your way to print a normal 8-1/2 x 11. (i.e., tile printing
would be default - which of course, is stupid).

Here, you have the opposite problem.
Just thought I throw in that observation.

Personally, I've never thought about trying to banner print with Word.
Setting a custom size PostScript printer page size with corresponding
margins in Word ought to do it. But my guess is there'll be some
dumbass limit in Word that only allows a margin to be so wide....
typically about 4% less than you need it to be.

In other words (no pun intended), just enough to be upsetting.

-mpm
 
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Joel Koltner

Jan 1, 1970
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On Dec 4, 11:57?am, Jim Thompson <To-Email-Use-The-Envelope-I...@My-
Web-Site.com> wrote:
"I'm suprised this isn't a feature (ehh, "bug") in Microsoft Word. (?!)"

It makes a lot more sense to make it a feature of the operating system in the
form of a printer driver "layer" (that sits on tops of the printer driver that
takes to the physical printer) -- this way every app doesn't have to
re-implement it. They are commerical programs out there to do this already...
perhaps sooner or later Microsoft will buy one?

FinePrint works this way... wonderful program, although unfortunately tiled
printing is one of the few things it doesn't do.

"But my guess is there'll be some
dumbass limit in Word that only allows a margin to be so wide....
typically about 4% less than you need it to be."

Word doesn't care about margins (they can be 0" if you like), but it is smart
enough to query the printer's driver to ask it what the printer can physically
support -- if you request a margin that's too small it puts up a dialog asking
whether you want to "fix it" or keep it, knowing that the printer will be
cropping your text (but perhaps by the time you get aorund to printing you'll
be using a different printer...)
 
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ChairmanOfTheBored

Jan 1, 1970
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IIRC, Open Office will do this, at least the PowerPoint-type program
will.

Best regards,
Spehro Pefhany


It's time for a knoppix boot disc!... Shall I post one?! ;-]

Mine is on my thumb drive.
 
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ChairmanOfTheBored

Jan 1, 1970
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Is there any way to print, with Word, so that I can get multiple
sheets wide that I can tape together?
Make the page size 5.5 x 4.25
 
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Joerg

Jan 1, 1970
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Rich said:
Of course, you realize that this isn't an electronics design
question. ;-)


Nope, cuz tile is the stuff that is gitten cut on them thar sawz with da
water spritzing out front all the time.
 
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JosephKK

Jan 1, 1970
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Jim Thompson [email protected] posted to
sci.electronics.design:
Is there any way to print, with Word, so that I can get multiple
sheets wide that I can tape together?

...Jim Thompson

Excel does tiled printing. If you can transfer it and get the paper
size stuff to work that might do it for you.
 
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