Picture Sizes, How they impact printing a thread Options

[ThinAir]

I don't know about the rest of you, but I often want to print a thread so that I can have it out by my car or just to file away. I find it very frustrating to pick something up from my printer only to find that the right side has been cut off and I can't make sense of it.

This morning I figured out that this is not just the laser printers work, but that the size of pictures in a thread is probably the primary cause for this problem. It turns out that although browsers can wrap the text when printing to compensate for the size of the paper, they don't seem to be able to resize the pictures to fit. I know that some printers have a "reduce to paper size" option, but my printer doesn't.

An example of this is this thread: http://www.914world.com/bbs2/index.php?act...t=ST&f=2&t=4940 where the pictures at the beginning are 825 pixels wide. When I printed it, the first line ends with "soldering is rat" because the text wraps at the width of the pictures.

My solution for this one was to save the thread as an html page, then I used my web page editor to resize the display of the first picture to 700 pixels wide. When I printed this time the pictures were narrow enough that they did not go past the right side of my page. The text wrapped at the same point where the right side of the picture is and I'm a happy camper.

I don't know that 700 pixels is some sort of magic width. I had also reduced my margins from .75" to .5" and that has an impact as well. What I'm sure of is that slightly smaller images in the threads would probably help for this problem as well as reducing bandwidth requirements.