I requested the "print on multiple pages" feature in April (see post:
http://groups.google.com/group/rationale/t/10e98ef6d2e00420?hl=en)
because our students too had lots of trouble printing their poster-
sized argument maps. Last year we used Rationale's predecessor
ReasonAble, which could print the maps on multiple pages with a few
mm's of overlap. This worked perfectly, and we were very surprised
that this option was gone when we upgraded to Rationale. Yes, there
are workarounds like saving as an image and then opening in Paint/
Excel before printing, but I still hope we can welcome this feature in
one of the future updates. Would make life (for our students) a lot
easier :)
Daniel posted: "...we've found that such features on other products
are awkward to use...". Personally, I have never experienced any
problems with this. Would you care to elaborate?
Thanks -
Jimmy
On Sep 29, 6:15 am, Bill Anelli <philosopherb...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Given the lack of the feature (see Dan's post from Austhink), I have a
> suggestion for Austhink if this is possible/easy to do???
> A "print preview" option in Rationale... so that one could see what
> would be printed on an 8.5x11 from a given zoom size - or perhaps a
> set of "margins" that indicate where a map would cut off, etc..
> that would be very helpful in figuring out where to selectively hide
> parts of a map, WHILE one is in the process of map creation.
> is this something that will be included in future versions?
> bill
> Daniel Prager wrote:
> > Hi Gary
> > Unfortunately there is no such feature. In practice we've found that
> > such features on other products are awkward to use
> > when you paste the pages back together.
> > One workaround is to selectively hide parts of the map and print a few
> > pages:
> > Page 1 - overview: Main contention and top-level reasons and
> > objections (everything below hidden)
> > Page 2 - reasons: Show everything below reasons / hide everything
> > below objections
> > Page 3 - objections: Show everything below objections / show
> > everything below reasons
> > For a really big map I do the overview, then break off individual
> > branches for separate printing.
> > Hope that helps
> > -- Dan Prager
> > Austhink Software
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