Hi all,

Has anyone found the solution to this problem?....

The Model Aviation archive at the AMA web site has printable pages from the magazines. Using standard 8 1/2 x 11 paper these pages will not fit by quite a margin. Even when I set the page margins to the minimum.

The magazines themselves are 8 x 11 so this seems very odd. Also the print command does not allow the 'size to fit' option in this case?

Anyone know how to get around this... other than buy a bigger printer!

Thanks.... graham_mca

It looks like the page images are JPEGs -- a standard graphics file format -- so I know a couple of things you could try...

Instead of clicking on the printable image link on the page, (if you're using ie) right click the link and select SAVE TARGET from the menu that you see, then save the JPEG file to your own computer.

From there you can probably input it into a graphics program or just launch it (as long as it doesn't launch right back into ie) and you'll probably have some control of print size from there. If it still gives you no control over print size, it will probably let you resize the picture... tell it to lock the aspect ratio and just reduce the size to 85% or something that fits a sheet of paper.

Another alternative once you've saved the file would be to use a program like MicroSoft Word, in Word you'd use the INSERT FILE selection from the menus and it should let you resize the image on a virtual page and then print it out as you see it.

Thanks for the reply Al....

Good ideas and I have tried them... but no it won't work that way. The big problem is that 'right click' only resizes the image to view it. 'Save as' etc is greyed out... If I highlight the whole page and 'copy'... upon 'pasting' there is nothing there. Likewise if I save the page as a file... upon opening it there is nothing there.... I reckon these images are very well protected!!

Problem is still though that they are too big to print on standard paper... weird!

Thanks anyway.... graham_mca

Not weird. The image itself is 8.5"x11". Most printers can't print all the way out to the edge of the paper, because of the pinch wheels that hold the paper by the edges and move it through the printer.

I'm not sure where you're finding these pages to look at. The only Model Aviation articles I can find are in the Member's Only section, and are standard web pages which should be automatically formatted to fit your printer when you go to print.

If you can view it, you can save it. If the "save image as" isn't a choice when you right-click, that means what you're trying to save is not an image.

It does not make sense that they would protect the page. If you were able to access the Members Only area, you already get the magazine, so there is no loss of subscription revenues or copyright problems...

Hello again....

>>I'm not sure where you're finding these pages to look at. The only Model Aviation articles I can find are in the Member's Only section, and are standard web pages which should be automatically formatted to fit your printer when you go to print.
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Those are the ones mkirch, and I agree that it makes no sense to protect the page so maybe that is not the problem.... but nontheless I cannot print of save these images.

Using 'save as'... when I retrieve the file... the text stating 'page ?... print this page' appears but nothing else. If the page automatically sized to my printer I would have no problem, and no questions here.... :-)

Maybe someone else could try printing or saving a page from the member archive and see if it actually works for them?... I would be most grateful....

Thanks... graham_mca

Graham --

Sunofagun-- now it's not working for me... for pages displayed from the BROWSE ISSUE function....

So I just was on such a page, found that the right-click resized it as you said, right-clicked the PRINT THIS PAGE link above the image, and then I got the SAVE TARGET AS item on the menu and was unable to save the .JPG file and use it...

maybe that is all turned off?