Re: [Planner] how to print to large paper?

[Sebastien Roy <Sebastien Roy Sun COM>]

On Thu, 2006-02-02 at 21:18 -0500, Kurt Maute wrote:
> On Thu, 2006-02-02 at 17:06 -0500, Sebastien Roy wrote:
> > I can't figure out how to tell planner to print my mamoth gantt chart to
> > a large 1 page pdf.  Planner (or Gnome, I don't really know) insists on
> > splitting the document into four pages horizontally, and three pages
> > vertically.  If I manually double the width and height of the paper, the
> > image just stretches to take up as many pages as before, but on a much
> > larger surface...  That doesn't seem right.
> > 
> > I want to give a large pdf to someone who has the ability to print the
> > file to a large spool of paper...
> 
> Yes, the print behavior needs some enhancement.  There are a few bugs
> filed already, most notably:
> http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=129141
> 
> and
> 
> http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=307635
> 
> For now the best you can do is play with the zoom in/zoom out feature in
> the Gantt view and try print preview until you have it.  Not the most
> user friendly method for sure.  It'd be nice to have a 'fit to page'
> option.
> 

Unfortunately, zooming out also means that all of the vertical lines
that allow one to match tasks up to the dates header disappear
altogether.  In any case, those bugs are basically what I'm running
into, so thanks for pointing them out.

-Seb