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Old January 14th 18, 03:47 AM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10,rec.photo.digital,alt.comp.freeware
Paul[_10_]
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Default Make 12x18" signs at home on 8.5x11" B&W laser printer

Eco Clean wrote:
- Paul wrote:

1) Open LibreOffice Calc.
2) Drop JPG onto spreadsheet.
3) Print

It takes as many pages to print, as the JPG covers up.


I first tried to open the PowerPointe in Libre Office but that was a
complete disaster, apparently because Libre Office doesn't respect
PowerPointe formatting.
[http://www.fileconvoy.com/dfl.php?id...308fa9c 6530]


So then I did what you said.
1) I opened LibreOffice 5.3.4.2 (x64) on Windows
2) I clicked on the green "Calc Spreadsheet" on the left pane.
3) That brought up a blank spreadsheet
4) I dragged and dropped newt.bmp onto the spreadsheet
5) I moved the result to the top left corner.
[http://www.fileconvoy.com/dfl.php?id...a8bcda9 7dcf]

6) FilePrintPreview, but the margins are horrifically huge
[http://www.fileconvoy.com/dfl.php?id...67f1143 3148]

7) There are actually 9 pages to this but there really should only be 4
[http://www.fileconvoy.com/dfl.php?id...4428ce2 5998]


How did you the sample document from 9 pages down to only 4 pages?

Is the trick to get 4 pages to reduce the margins manually?
Or to reduce the image size?


Using the usual scroll wheel and control key trick, zoom
out the Calc spreadsheet window, until you can see the 8.5x11
page delimiter lines.

Go to the lower right corner of the image. Click the image to
select it. Press the control key (to cause X:Y to be locked
together for proportional scaling). Now, move that corner up
and to the left to resize the image as it lays on the
spreadsheet. You might be able to make out, that now my image
is laid within the bounds of four typewriter pages.

https://s13.postimg.org/62kr8y83r/gr...oportional.gif

A side effect is, Export To PDF still stupidly printed
9 pages, even though 4 pages of content are there. I suspect
the original image is (conceptually) still hiding in the
environment somewhere. You may be able to use another
PDF tool to eliminate the extra pages. As long as the
pages are sequential (no gaps), simply printing page
range 1-4 might be sufficient to avoid wasting paper.

Anyway, that's a breadcrumb to doing this easily. I can't vouch
for how useful the output doc will be :-(

https://s13.postimg.org/ys7n5q9kn/my_export_pdf.gif

Paul