跨页打印HTML / CSS

Question

SO is probably not the right place for this, but I may have missed a trick with my HTML/CSS.

I have written an application that outputs to HTML, for convenience. The page it produces is big, insofar as it should span multiple pages, both horizontally and vertically. However, unlike spreadsheets, browsers don't seem to do the "across then down" or "down then across" style printing and, if the page isn't shrunk-to-fit, it's just clipped at one page's width.

Short of printing to a custom page size that accommodates the full width and height, is there anything I can do to get the page-spanning printing I'm looking for?

Answer 1

For the problem Landscaping is one method you can try out.

Refer here:- Landscape printing from HTML

But I would recommend to convert it to a PDF before printing which will be more comfortable.

Answer 2

I couldn't find a programmatic solution, so did this:

• Print oversized HTML on to paper big enough to accommodate everything (eg, A0) to PDF.
• Adobe Reader (and probably other viewers) have a "Poster Print" option, that does the tiling automatically with an optional scaling factor: Do this, either to PDF if you need to do any further layout processing, or to your printer directly.
• ???
• Profit

A bit of a weak link in my pipeline -- until I can generate tiled PDFs directly -- but c'est la vie!