Printing text wider than A4

[Richmond Mathewson]

Beat Cornaz wrote:
> Hi you all,
>
> I'm in search for a solution to print text that runs wider than a 
> landscape A4. The normal printing commands work for printing text 
> where the number of lines is more than an A4 can carry. The rest is 
> printed on a second etc. page. But with text that extends the width of 
> a (landscape) A4, the text that extends does just not print. I would 
> expect that it would print on a second page, especially as I can 
> choose the order of printing of the pages in such a case in my printer 
> dialog.
> I need something which does not wrap my lines. The line should print 
> on at the same line number
>  on the next printed page.
>
> Anyone any ideas?
>
> Beat,
>
> Beat Cornaz
>
Well, let's see:

Is this on Win, Mac or Lin, or cross-P?

On my G4 Mac I just popped this into a button:

on mouseUp
   set the systemPrintSelector to true
   answer page setup
end mouseUp

and it took me straight to the system printer preferences
where I was able to choose an A3 setting.