[NMLUG] capturing snapshots of long HTML pages

[havoc at harrisdev.com (Jody Harris)]

Wesley J Landaker wrote:
> For now, try printing to size B0; it's quite large. Even if you have to 
> stitch, it'll be quite a bit few pages to do it to.

I've considered this before, but the page would be too wide.  Only when 
reading your message did the light come on to *make the right margin 
wide enough to force the output to the size I want.

> Other than that, you'll need to find where to redefine or add a paper 
> size for whatever system you're using to print.
> 
> If you use ghostscript along the way, try the gs_statd.ps file (should 
> be in /usr/share/gs/[version]/ -- depends on your distro)
> 
> If you use enscript, or something else that uses libpaper, you might 
> have to play with that library. I don't know how it works exactly.
> 
> If you are using the gnome print system, you can (apparently) just 
> edit /etc/paper.config and get the results you want.

I can look for that.  If nothing else, I can install the gnome printing 
stuff, and see what I can learn.

jody
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