XPost: comp.text.pdf, alt.comp.os.windows-10   
   From: ollie@invalid.net   
      
   On Wed, 13 Mar 2024 13:51:33 -0400, Paul  wrote   
      
   > I believe the OP does have at least one computer with a larger screen.   
   > I think his screen is larger than the one I've got.   
      
   You're correct my screen is larger than my refrigerator (almost) in that   
   it's the Sharp LC-45GD7U (the screen only of which I just measured   
   physically, with a ruler, to be about 36 inches wide & 22 inches tall).   
      
   I tried to flip sidewise the book that I could only borrow for one hour on   
   archive.org or google books where that would have helped a lot!   
      
   But I didn't know how to flip a Firefox TOR web page display sidewise.   
      
   > At one time, Windows used to support "pan mode" and you could define   
   > a virtual resolution in the MVidia "old" control panel. That   
   > capability was removed from both NVidia and ATI/AMD interfaces   
   > (at roughly the same time the PowerStrip developer shut down),   
   > which tells you Microsoft wanted pan mode removed.   
      
   Ah, that's interesting. It's the one solution suggested so far that I had   
   not immediately thought of already - which is to see if the driver I have   
   supports better resolution on my dual monitor setup.   
      
   My driver is... let me look... using the (deprecated) DuMo software...   
    NVIDIA GeForce GTX 750 Ti driver version 31.0.15.3770   
      
   If I can "landscape" the web page view - that would add pixels immediately.   
   Can that be done?   
      
   > Linux still has pan mode. This is from my notes file, and has some   
   > suggestions for configuring a limited/specific set of distros for taking   
   shots.   
   >   
   >    # Remove ugly backup picture from desktop, replace with color  [Gnome3?]   
   >    gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.background picture-uri none   
   >    gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.background primary-color '#3ea5a6"   
   >   
   >    # Set virtual resolution, desktop "pans" when mouse bumps edge of screen   
   >    # Type bare "xrandr" command to get your output port names.   
   >    xrandr --output HDMI-0 --panning 1280x10000   
   >   
   >    # Dump a snapshot of the screen into the specified output file.   
   >    # The purpose of the sleep 10, is to allow the user to flip back to   
   >    # the item being captured, and say, select a menu with a mouse to compose   
   a shot.   
   >   
   >    sleep 10 ; xwd -root -out xwd.xwdump   
   >   
   > But on modern Windows, that's been removed. Presumably part of PVP   
   > or its successor (where 4K BluRays are decoded in an Enclave on the CPU   
   > and other sneaky things).   
      
   I tried to use the Adobe Acrobat (writer) capability of opening an entire   
   web page (every page in the web site down from a given level) but it just   
   ended up giving me the archive.org home page level and not the pages of the   
   book.   
      
   I do think there is magic there though in that capability of Adobe Acrobat   
   to turn an entire web site into a linked PDF (much like Paul already does   
   with the Windows freeware WkHtmlToPDF tool (https://wkhtmltopdf.org/).   
      
   I just have to figure out how to get Adobe Acrobat writer to use the   
   URL to a book and then follow through with every page of the book,   
   but the URL remains static for the entire book by some magic unknown to me.   
      
   That's why I'm asking for help from the experts because if it was easy, I   
   would have done it already and I wouldn't need to be asking for advice.   
      
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