I had used the snipping tool on my computer to snap a picture of the program, one portion at a time, and than I arranged them parallel on a sheet of paper for printing. The judges never had trouble understanding it was one program that went for many blocks. Regards, Brandy On Thu, Oct 31, 2013 at 9:08 AM, Tom Spalthoff <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > Another approach is to "break" the program blocks up and arrange them on > the screen in a more reader-friendly configuration before printing. You > can always use a pencil to connect the last block on the right to the first > block on the left to show the flow. It's only for explanation purposes, so > it's not a big deal that the program won't "run" that way - it's the > content of the blocks that matters. > > --Tom > > ------------------------------ > Date: Thu, 31 Oct 2013 01:49:46 -0700 > From: [log in to unmask] > Subject: Re: [VADCFLL-L] Help with printing programs > To: [log in to unmask] > > > As Rich Tate sugessted, use NXT's print to HTML file. This will produce a > *.png file and if your program is very long it will be a long skinny > image. If you open this into MS Word or PowerPoint you'll find it will > either print to small for your to read or if it is readable it will > truncate and not print the end of the program. Frustrating. Believe it or > not, MS Excel does a very good job of printing the long skinny *.png files > without the need to fuss over taking screenshots of each page. Open the > file in Excel using the 'Insert Picture' and select the png file. Go to > print preview and using page setup select "fit to" and set it to 3 or 4 > pages wide (use whatever number makes it fit best) by 1 page high. You can > fine-tune how the images are spread across the number of pages you select > by changing the margins to your liking. > > It's a bit non-intuitive to use a tool like Excel to print the images of > NXT programs, but it is much faster than having to take individual screen > shots of every page. To my knowledge, Excel is the only MS application > that can deal with printing long and skinny images properly. > > Pete Zulkarnain > > > > On Wednesday, October 30, 2013 9:09 PM, Gina Willett < > [log in to unmask]> wrote: > Can anyone tell me how to print out a program that uses 20+ blocks > without it being so tiny that you can't hardly read it? I have tried > everything! > > Thanks in advance for your help! > > Gina Willett > ------------------------------ > To UNSUBSCRIBE or CHANGE your settings, please visit > https://listserv.jmu.edu/archives/vadcfll-l.html and select "Join or > leave the list". > VADCFLL administrative announcements are sent via VADCFLL-ANNOUNCEMENTS-L. > Visit https://listserv.jmu.edu/archives/vadcfll-announcements-l.html to > subscribe. > > > ------------------------------ > To UNSUBSCRIBE or CHANGE your settings, please visit > https://listserv.jmu.edu/archives/vadcfll-l.html and select "Join or > leave the list". > VADCFLL administrative announcements are sent via VADCFLL-ANNOUNCEMENTS-L. > Visit https://listserv.jmu.edu/archives/vadcfll-announcements-l.html to > subscribe. > ------------------------------ > To UNSUBSCRIBE or CHANGE your settings, please visit > https://listserv.jmu.edu/archives/vadcfll-l.html and select "Join or > leave the list". > VADCFLL administrative announcements are sent via VADCFLL-ANNOUNCEMENTS-L. > Visit https://listserv.jmu.edu/archives/vadcfll-announcements-l.html to > subscribe. > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE or CHANGE your settings, please visit https://listserv.jmu.edu/archives/vadcfll-l.html and select "Join or leave the list". -- VADCFLL administrative announcements are sent via VADCFLL-ANNOUNCEMENTS-L. Visit https://listserv.jmu.edu/archives/vadcfll-ANNOUNCEMENTS-l.html to subscribe.