Posting a Long Gear List

why not take the link to your excel file in your profile page and embed it as a link in your post?

"why not take the link to your excel file in your profile page and embed it as a link in your post?"

Because that ties the thread to a Gear List which will change over time – making the thread nonsensical.

Greg,

If there are three pages you could just export the PDFs to jpgs and then upload 3 jpg images. I don't see why you would need to splice them. But if you know about Gimp, you probably know a lot about this, so I am guessing I am missing something.

Try it.
You'll see why.

Greg, but it would be nice if at your profile page you did upload your Gear List — I don't see it. I have a lengthy gear list at my profile page. I'd like to see yours.

It took some rooting around, but here it is – provided your version of Excel (.xlsx) has these features.

(If your version is old (.xls) use File/Page Setup, Scale, and then create a PDF manually with Adobe Acrobat.)

Before anything else, Do a Save As to create a copy of your Excel files and work on that, to preserve the original.

There only 3 Steps, the first 2 in Excel, the 3rd in Adobe:
1)Page Layout/Scale
2)Save As – PDF
3)Export – JPG

First, in Excel, in the Menu Bar, select Page Layout, and then Scale to Fit.

Change the Height to a number big enough to capture your spreadsheet. In my case '3 pages' does it. (CLUE: When I previewed or printed, I saw 3 pages.)

Next, do a " Save As" to an Adobe PDF, and you will get a single long page document.

Last, open the file in Acrobat, and click on EXPORT. In my case I chose to export a JPEG –

Which, when Inserted into a BPL post [the 'Insert Image at Cursor' button is above and right of the Comments box], looks like this –

Neat and Clean.
As long as you want.
And you can actually read it.

The Gear List is preserved in the thread, and any future changes to your Gear List won't have an impact.

Greg:

You must have a newer version of Excel than I do. There is no "scale to fit" function in Excel 2002, nor do I have the option of saving as a pdf.

Bob –

darn…
sorry.

The old version of Excel has the Scale function under File/Page Setup – it's in the middle of the window.

Create a PDF with the Adobe Acrobat 8.0 or so, and then export. It will suck in an .xls just fine.

There is a thread from 2007 that has a few hints:
2007 Thread

Hope that helps!

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Mike,
Does it honor or ignore the page breaks that the native program creates?

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Thanks for the info Mike.
CutePDF sounds like a good tool.

Edit: I see that another app called 'GhostScript' must also be installed.