On Mon 07 Jan 2019 at 14:37:30 -0600, David Wright wrote: > On Mon 07 Jan 2019 at 18:21:07 (+0000), Brian wrote: > > On Sun 06 Jan 2019 at 18:13:58 -0600, David Wright wrote: > > > > [...] > > > > > BTW if this Screenshot method is meant to yield a "printable" > > > document, I haven't yet figured out how to print it sensibly. > > > $ lp -d PDF very-long-image.png gives me the image on one page, > > > and looks, as it happens, like the sort of output that FF sometimes > > > gives when printing articles: a narrow column of minute text. > > > > To nitpick, the claim was that the Raspberry Pi Stack Exchange page > > was printable. Whether the marks on paper satisfied a user in all > > regards wasn't touched on until now. > > I think it's reasonable to demand a certain level of legibility.
Indeed. That is why I am looking at printouts from Firefox and lp which nobody with reasonable eyesight would have any trouble reading. > > For me, printing the screen image obtained from my chosen page from > > the Print Preview of FireFox gave an acceptable output with a Custom > > Scale. It helped to choose Landscape mode. > > The landscape mode changes the output from a very tall image printed > on a portrait page to the same image printed across it instead, > reducing the scale by the golden proportion. > > > 'lp -d.....' benefits from fiddling with the scaling= option and from > > orientation-requested=4. > > This gets very involved. Having tried feeding convert with the image, > I see that it can produce a pretty faithful PDF which suffers only > from the usual problem of being overtall. Printing from Firefox is hardly involved. Basically, choose the scaling. Forget about lp; most people never use it directly. > If I was going to indulge in this very often (which I'm not) I think > it would be worth writing a script to run convert on page-size slices > of the image, outputting them as PDFs, and collate them into a > conventional multipage document with pdftk. It would be fairly simple > to compute the y-size by ratioing the x-size according to the paper > regime, and even allow for some overlap between pages (because one > doesn't know where to slice in between lines of text). Sounds more involved than using lp. > PS what's a backdoord malward? Pass. -- Brian.
