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| Thread ID: 68037 | 2006-04-15 03:00:00 | Printing a family tree | TideMan (4279) | PC World Chat |
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| 446388 | 2006-04-15 03:00:00 | My father-in-law has received a very fancy family tree prepared by a program called Second Site. It's in the form of a .htm file. You can pan around using a web browser and it all looks very nice. Of course the first thing the old fella tried to do is to print it. He likes pasting sheets together and covering the floor with paper. But only the first printer page has writing and all the others are blank. I've looked at it and I can't see any way of printing this huge webpage correctly. I tried writing a .pdf file, but that just looks exactly like what gets printed (1st page with writing, others blank). The .htm imports to Word OK, but it appears as a series of lines, not a tree. Can anyone help? |
TideMan (4279) | ||
| 446389 | 2006-04-15 03:50:00 | Apart from making an image of it and printing it out that way - (undesirable), I can't see any possible solution. But perhaps you can show us the htm page for us to ponder over? | Greg (193) | ||
| 446390 | 2006-04-15 03:53:00 | That's a good one. :( Some web pages have a "printer-friendly" version available ... perhaps this programme can be told to do this? Or maybe ... just maybe ... the page has such a button on it. ;) We can always hope. :thumbs: |
Graham L (2) | ||
| 446391 | 2006-04-15 04:14:00 | .....that is a toughy, if it can transfer to pdf, maybe a pdf to bitmap converter may help, but yea, tough one... | rob_on_guitar (4196) | ||
| 446392 | 2006-04-15 04:31:00 | OK, I've loaded it to one of my websites here: www.tideman.co.nz/ld4.htm I must say I'm impressed with the program that has produced this, though genealogy bores me to tears :yuck: |
TideMan (4279) | ||
| 446393 | 2006-04-15 22:09:00 | ahhhhh.....wow, I really do see the dilemma! | rob_on_guitar (4196) | ||
| 446394 | 2006-04-15 22:24:00 | It's a damn fine chart. Back to my original thought, the only option I see is to take a series of screenshots, paste em together in an image editting programme, shrink it to fit the size of your printer's maximum paper, and print it like that. If you save the images in a lossless format such as a bitmap, the end result should be good. It's very doable albeit a hassle. I'll have a crack at it for you later if I get the time. If you can't get a decent solution maybe a proffesional copy shop could help. |
Greg (193) | ||
| 446395 | 2006-04-15 22:49:00 | I thought I had solved it - I managed to get it to all print, but it would squeeze everything so it fits on the width of one page - which is obviously something you don't really want. I did this using Epson's "Web to Page" feature, which was installed with my Epson printer. | somebody (208) | ||
| 446396 | 2006-04-15 22:53:00 | Here is my attempt: www.imagef1.net.nz If you zoom in enough, you can see that it is reasonably OK in terms of rendering. Maybe you could just enlarge what I have made there?? |
somebody (208) | ||
| 446397 | 2006-04-15 23:07:00 | I haven't been able to find it again but a while ago someone posted a link to a program that printed out the entire contents of a web page. Not sure if it would handle a page like that though. Greg's suggestion is what I would do as well - maximise the browser window to full screen (press F11) and do a PrintScreen, paste that page into a graphics editor, save it, scroll the page to the next location, PrintScreen again and save that until you have the whole lot. After that print out each image and piece the lot together on the floor or table in one big chart. Crude but it will work. |
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