Custom Paper "Assembly"

[Mark Aalyson]

Having created a document on custom paper (24 wide x 18 high) I am hoping
that Word can scale the document across standard paper, either letter or
legal. In other words, I'd like to print sections of the document among
several sheets to be assembled with old-fashioned tape, a sort of poor man's
wide-carriage printer, if you will. Is there a technique for this? I don't
see the issue addressed in the help documentation.

Mark

Office 2004

 

[CyberTaz]

Word really isn't the best program for such a project - if for no other
reason it is limited to a paper size of 22"x22" regardless of what your
printer's capacity may be. There are any number of other programs that would
handle the task more efficiently & without anywhere near the hassle. They
range in price from fairly expensive to free. Have a go at Google as well
as: http://www.versiontracker.com/macosx/ - even PowerPoint would be a
better way to go.

 

[John McGhie]

Hi Mark:

Word can't do this. Excel can.

You want part of an impression on one sheet, the other part on another
sheet? No, sorry, Word can't do that.

The best you can do is scale your page to fit the available paper size, then
use a photocopier to optically enlarge the result onto the actual paper
stock. If you have a high-resolution laser printer you'll get away with it.
I wouldn't bother on an inkjet

Cheers

Having created a document on custom paper (24 wide x 18 high) I am hoping
that Word can scale the document across standard paper, either letter or
legal. In other words, I'd like to print sections of the document among
several sheets to be assembled with old-fashioned tape, a sort of poor man's
wide-carriage printer, if you will. Is there a technique for this? I don't
see the issue addressed in the help documentation.

Mark

Office 2004

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[Elliott Roper]

Having created a document on custom paper (24 wide x 18 high) I am hoping
that Word can scale the document across standard paper, either letter or
legal. In other words, I'd like to print sections of the document among
several sheets to be assembled with old-fashioned tape, a sort of poor man's
wide-carriage printer, if you will. Is there a technique for this? I don't
see the issue addressed in the help documentation.

Word can't do that, as John, Bob and others have already said.

Here is another way. OmniGraffle. (grab the v5 beta from Omnigroup.com
while you can if you need to do it for free)

Print your monster to PDF with the paper size set to monster 24*18
Make a canvas out of ordinary size paper in OmniGraffle
Drag your PDF onto the canvas and print it from there (It *is* that
easy)
The best part is that OmniGraffle knows how close to the edge your
printer can print. It skips the margins your printer can't reach.
So all you have to do is trim them off and overdose on Spraymount fumes
as you assemble your poster.

Another good thing is that technique works with enlargement too. You
could have started with a normal A4 or US letter PDF and after dragging
it onto the OmniGraffle canvas, you could have shift dragged its corner
out to billboard size. Just to be silly, I made a poster 100*100 A4
pages to make sure I was not lying to you.
Yes Virginia, that is 10,000 sheets of A4 and enough Spraymount to
intoxicate 250 teenagers. (OK it went to PDF, with virtual paper and
imaginary teenagers, but it did work!) Near enough to two tennis
courts and a bit left over for the TV cameras. You could read it from
space!

I told you I was being silly, didn't I?
It took all of two minutes.