[Gllug] Printing a very wide HTML table

[Richard Jones]

On Tue, Nov 18, 2003 at 02:34:26PM +0000, Alan Peery wrote:
>        I have a very wide html table, about 10 pages wide.  It scrolls 
> nicely on the screeen, but I would like to print it out.  Reworking the 
> code split the table based on the page width would be quite a pain, so I 
> am hoping someone can point me to a handy tool/trick. 
> 
>         Any recommendations?

Can you get the full table into a Postscript file? Even one where the
BoundingBox is too small to display it, but all the data is actually
there?

If so it's a relatively simple matter to rotate and/or scale the file
for display, eg. by appending these PS commands after any drawing
commands and before the showpage:

90 rotate

0.02 scale     % will reduce image to 1/50th original size

Also remove any %%PageBoundingBox or %%BoundingBox commands.

Contact me offline if you need any further PS help.

Rich.

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