Tiled Printing with Word ??

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

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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.

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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.

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

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John B

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.)

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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.

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John B

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

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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

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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John B

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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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!

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Of course, you realize that this isn't an electronics design question. ;-)

Cheers! Rich

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

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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

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...)

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

Mine is on my thumb drive.

Make the page size 5.5 x 4.25

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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Jim Thompson snipped-for-privacy@My-Web-Site.com posted to sci.electronics.design:

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