RE: [viewvc-users] A question of Printing

1000 thanks.  That is the direction that I was headed but got caught up in work – your answer makes a lot of sense tho

From: C. Michael Pilato [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Tuesday, October 09, 2012 1:36 PM
To: Smelcer, Gary A.
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [viewvc-users] A question of Printing

Responses inline.

On 10/09/2012 12:36 PM, [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> wrote:
Michael,

Persistent.  I love it!  Thanks.  I am a total novice – end user in this so I do not know what the heck I am talking about.  But here is what I see.

[cid:[email protected]]

This first image is a screenshot of ViewVC's directory listing view of your Wells Farchovia ;-) CVS repository.  As you navigate through these directory listings, you are crawling around in the virtual filesystem of that CVS repository.  At some point, you find a version-controlled file in the CVS repository called "Fee_Mgt_Orchestration_Functions.jpg" that you're interested in viewing and printing.  So you click the name of that file, and you see this (your second image):



[cid:[email protected]]



Here's the thing.  Your web browser is at this point merely showing you a picture -- a particular picture that ViewVC has helped you (and it) find.  ViewVC doesn't generate the picture.  It doesn't manipulate the picture.  It doesn't know what's in the picture, doesn't know the picture's dimensions, and certainly wouldn't know how to break the picture up into smaller page-sized chunks.  It just tells your web browser "the picture lives _here_".  And the web browser displays it, just as it would display any other image on the Internet.

So, yes, your question is generic:  how can I print a single big image across many pages from a web browser.

Unfortunately, the mailing list you contacted isn't a generic mailing list, so your question is off-topic.  That's okay -- happens all the time.  And typically, I'd still try to answer the question if I could.  Alas, I don't know a really good answer to your question.  I would start by clicking the "(download)" link at the top-left corner of the page you show here.  This will download that big JPEG image to your computer.  From there, you'll probably need some sort of image editing software to either break the image up into smaller chunks or to at least print it across multiple pages.  Maybe the result of this Google search will help?  http://www.google.com/search?q=print+large+image+across+multiple+pages

Sorry I/we can't be of more assistance.



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