[or-roots] http://oregonnews.uoregon.edu/

[James]

Problem with the print friendly option - you get condensed prints with a lot of black borders, the way I mentioned, you can remove the black, print in expanded view.
   Also another way is to save as a jpg, like in Ancestry - save as picture ( jpg ) then right click the picture where you saved it, and use the printer direct, change preferences to plain paper - print in gray scale so you are not using the color cartridges to make black - this uses the black only - I use 4x6 for color.
  Printing direct from a website just makes more mess than a nice clean copy.
I can show a couple b4 and after prints to example what I am mentioning.
   Hey for those who have the preview fax viewer, you can magnify the item, to where you like it - then, do the same PRTSC ALT - open in Paint, and you have anexpanded view saved you can work with.    I also have a very old prg still working gives me so many more options - ps another hint if some thing is so small - print it in high res - use the digital camera, or cell phone - take a picture - ah ha, you now have a full sized Item not pixilated, works great on those tiny pictures too. Experiment - I did.
   Hope they fixed the phone lines . We have 541, cell phone, but have not have a problem here.
  Still winter, hope there is warmer weather someplace.
Am thinking about relocation to a warmer place.
Dan M _ pioneering the high desert ;)
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Leslie Chapman 
  To: or-roots mail list 
  Sent: Sunday, May 15, 2011 11:17 AM
  Subject: Re: [or-roots] http://oregonnews.uoregon.edu/


        Not sure if this is relevant or not, but 541 area code is on the fritz this morning due to a severed fiber optic line. Somehow some people with land line internet and phone still have service, but people with wireless internet and cell phones are having not much luck last I heard. 


        As to the tiny font thing, if you are talking about a saved image as per Dan's instructions, you should be able to enlarge the image  if you have some image editing program better than paint to use is better, but in paint on the menu at the top of the page you will see "image", click on that and the option you  want is "stretch/skew"; click on that and set the percentage of stretch at say 150% for both horizontal and vertical and save the file. If the image is just real small, you might be able to avoid all of that if you use Windows picture and fax viewer to print the image you can use the image as a full page print, no matter how small it is. If the resolution is bad though you may get a print to pixellated to read.


        Some web sites offer a "printer friendly option" button somewhere on the page and if the printout you are getting includes a lot of the extraneous material on the page that might be your easiest option. I usually copy text material from the source page and use word to paste it into. I have gazillions of "internet search" files in most of my 70 or so surname folders. Often I will have a file that I past all the email for a given family, another file where I past all the things I get from places like SSDI, Cal death index, stuff I used to get free from Vital search which unfortunately I didn't save all of that way and when they quit giving anything away I lost everything I had saved from them as a web page, but a lot of families I have twenty or thirty pages of that and another file I put stuff like roots web and genealogy.com and ancestry info in. 


        If you use a file like that to store the info in be sure and include the URL of the page it came from and if possible find the home page for the site so you can include that URL and the name of the people or organization that has put the info out  there. Of course there is no guarantee the URL will be any good tomorrow, but at least if you have the home page info it is more likely you can track them down. I have tracked people down that way 3 or 4 years after saving something and had them mystified that i had the information I was asking them about as they had long since removed the web page, or sometimes I find things in Google Cache that people have dumped years before.


        If you are printing text directly from a web page another trick that might work is just to enlarge the font on the page, I am not sure if that affects the printing process or not, but most web pages that are well designed can be enlarged by holding down the the ctrl key and spinning the wheel on your mouse, if you don't have  wheel mouse I am not sure where to go for that though; okay if you don't have a wheel mouse hold down the ctrl key and hit plus for larger and - for smaller, that is very helpful for those of us whose eyes arent' what they used to be too, as you can blow a page up to where it is easy to read.


        Hope some of this helps folks.


        Les

        --- On Sun, 5/15/11, Susie Gust <rgust at netwtc.net> wrote:


          From: Susie Gust <rgust at netwtc.net>
          Subject: Re: [or-roots] http://oregonnews.uoregon.edu/
          To: "'or-roots mail list'" <or-roots at listsmart.osl.state.or.us>
          Date: Sunday, May 15, 2011, 8:25 AM


          Yes! I keep getting a message that the connection was reset.

          Susie



          From: or-roots-bounces at listsmart.osl.state.or.us [mailto:or-roots-bounces at listsmart.osl.state.or.us] On Behalf Of Diane
          Sent: Sunday, May 15, 2011 10:06 AM
          To: or-roots mail list
          Subject: [or-roots] http://oregonnews.uoregon.edu/



          Is anyone else having a hard time getting http://oregonnews.uoregon.edu/ to wake up this morning?   Last night it 'went to sleep' and for me will not connect on either of my computers.  



          Also, how does one get the page to print in a larger font?  I printed out one page of what I wanted to read and keep, but needed a microscope to read the print.



          Many thanks,



          Diane
       



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