I know you have all, at one time or another, seen the chunks of charts that SkyVector.com displays for selected places;
Well, today, I was looking at a SkyVector map (linked from the most excellent Gaston's Fly-In web site), and when I decided to print it, I discovered something handy. I was unhappy with the size of the map on 8.5x11 paper, figured that was as good as it got, but tried printing onto a legal-sized piece of paper, and - guess what - the map printed grew to fill the available space on the paper (I printed it in landscape mode, so it printed nice and wide).
So, I thought I'd try it on my bigger-format printer, printing to an 11x17 piece of paper- excellent result, it gave a nice big chunk of chart, nicer!
So, tomorrow I plan to try to print on the largest piece of paper my printer can handle, which is (I think, based upon the defined paper sizes) 13x19. Who knows, I might even be able to scale it up to a longer piece of paper (13" is limitation on lateral dimension).
It is what looks to me like some darned-nice programming.
Well, today, I was looking at a SkyVector map (linked from the most excellent Gaston's Fly-In web site), and when I decided to print it, I discovered something handy. I was unhappy with the size of the map on 8.5x11 paper, figured that was as good as it got, but tried printing onto a legal-sized piece of paper, and - guess what - the map printed grew to fill the available space on the paper (I printed it in landscape mode, so it printed nice and wide).
So, I thought I'd try it on my bigger-format printer, printing to an 11x17 piece of paper- excellent result, it gave a nice big chunk of chart, nicer!
So, tomorrow I plan to try to print on the largest piece of paper my printer can handle, which is (I think, based upon the defined paper sizes) 13x19. Who knows, I might even be able to scale it up to a longer piece of paper (13" is limitation on lateral dimension).
It is what looks to me like some darned-nice programming.