Re: [PLUG] Downloading wide web page displays on a square monitor

2021-11-08 Thread Rich Shepard
On Mon, 8 Nov 2021, Tomas Kuchta wrote: Or you could try different browser, such as google chrome Or, I use a different entry into the database. :-) It was first suggested (by the database tutorials) to use the maps tab. Then I leared that to download the data instead of only looking at

Re: [PLUG] Downloading wide web page displays on a square monitor

2021-11-08 Thread Tomas Kuchta
If you really believe that it is caused by the lack of wide screen. You could start vncserver -geometry 1920x1080 Then vncviewer :1 In it open the browser in full screen, load the page, print the page, Get off vncviewer, vncserver -kill :1 Or you could try different browser, such as google

Re: [PLUG] Downloading wide web page displays on a square monitor [RESOLVED]

2021-11-08 Thread Rich Shepard
On Mon, 8 Nov 2021, Rich Shepard wrote: I can handle .html, but the only way to get html is by saving. Here's an example: Robert, The program manager called me and he put me on the proper path to get the data I need. Turns out I had selected the wrong initial place to access the database.

Re: [PLUG] Downloading wide web page displays on a square monitor

2021-11-08 Thread Rich Shepard
On Mon, 8 Nov 2021, Robert Citek wrote: This sounds like a job for Python's Pandas library, which can parse HTML tables into data frames and export to CSV, for example. I'd be happy to try that out if you can e-mail a copy of the html file that you downloaded, the one with html and javascript

Re: [PLUG] Downloading wide web page displays on a square monitor

2021-11-08 Thread Robert Citek
Gotcha. This sounds like a job for Python's Pandas library, which can parse HTML tables into data frames and export to CSV, for example. I'd be happy to try that out if you can e-mail a copy of the html file that you downloaded, the one with html and javascript noise. Regards, - Robert On

Re: [PLUG] Downloading wide web page displays on a square monitor

2021-11-08 Thread Rich Shepard
On Mon, 8 Nov 2021, Robert Citek wrote: What are you really trying to do? Get the data in an electronic format, or print it on paper, or something else? - Robert Download digital data that can be analyzed. Rich

Re: [PLUG] Downloading wide web page displays on a square monitor

2021-11-08 Thread Robert Citek
What are you really trying to do? Get the data in an electronic format, or print it on paper, or something else? - Robert On Mon, Nov 8, 2021 at 2:05 PM Rich Shepard wrote: > On Mon, 8 Nov 2021, Robert Citek wrote: > > > > onto different pages. If so, then maybe "fit to page" ( or some

Re: [PLUG] Downloading wide web page displays on a square monitor

2021-11-08 Thread Rich Shepard
On Mon, 8 Nov 2021, Robert Citek wrote: onto different pages. If so, then maybe "fit to page" ( or some scaling factor ) followed by `pdfposter` might fit your bill. http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/bionic/man1/pdfposter.1.html Robert, Could be. Then I'd need to extract the text and put

Re: [PLUG] Downloading wide web page displays on a square monitor

2021-11-08 Thread Robert Citek
It sounds like what you want is to "tile" the page and print separate tiles onto different pages. If so, then maybe "fit to page" ( or some scaling factor ) followed by `pdfposter` might fit your bill. http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/bionic/man1/pdfposter.1.html FWIW, the link you provided

Re: [PLUG] Downloading wide web page displays on a square monitor

2021-11-08 Thread Rich Shepard
On Mon, 8 Nov 2021, Rich Shepard wrote: What comes to mind is the “fit to print” ( or similarly named ) option. That might end up a 2pt font. :-) I zoomed out until all columns displayed, set the page size to US Legal and the orientation to landscape. Printed a .pdf to file. The font was

Re: [PLUG] Downloading wide web page displays on a square monitor

2021-11-08 Thread Rich Shepard
On Mon, 8 Nov 2021, Robert Citek wrote: What comes to mind is the “fit to print” ( or similarly named ) option. Robert, That might end up a 2pt font. :-) Is the website publicly accessible? If so, can you post the URL so that we can try out solutions? Rather than providing the path to

Re: [PLUG] Downloading wide web page displays on a square monitor

2021-11-08 Thread Robert Citek
Hello Rich, What comes to mind is the “fit to print” ( or similarly named ) option. Is the website publicly accessible? If so, can you post the URL so that we can try out solutions? Regards, - Robert On Mon, Nov 8, 2021 at 12:22 PM Rich Shepard wrote: > I use HP/Compaq LA1951g 19" square

[PLUG] Downloading wide web page displays on a square monitor

2021-11-08 Thread Rich Shepard
I use HP/Compaq LA1951g 19" square monitors (1280x1024 dpi default resolution). On occasion, such as today, I try to print from firefox a web page of a data table that is too wide to see all on the monitor. I can scroll horizontally but only the visible portion of the table is printed. When I