margins on wide pages from getting cut off. Scaling the page smaller can fix this as well. Figure 12-2: At its original size, this Illinois train route diagram is cut off when printed If, on the other hand, a page has text too small to read comfortably on paper, you can scale the page larger - the paper equivalent of zooming in. Tip Temporarily changing the text size of a Web page using the View Text Size menu in the main Firefox window does not change the printed format of the page, so don't be surprised if Print Preview shows the page at its original text size. However, changing the text size of all Web sites, as I discuss in Chapter 19, does affect the printed page. If you don't want to enlarge or reduce the text size of all pages but want to change the text size of a particular page for printing purposes, Print Preview's scaling feature is the way to go. To scale a page, simply open the Scale drop-down list in the Print Preview window and select one of the following settings: A preset percentage: Choose a percentage below 100% to scale a page smaller (I use 50% in Figure 12-3), above 100% to scale a page larger, or 100% to print the page at its current (original) size. Figure 12-3: but when you scale it down to 50%, it fits. Shrink to Fit: Select this option to automatically fit the page onto a standard 8 1/2-x-11-inch sheet of paper. If you decide to print on a nonstandard size of paper, such as a postcard or legal-size page, you have to set up your printer to accommodate this. The procedure for doing this varies depending on your printer, but typically you open the Firefox Print window, click the Properties button, and then navigate to a paper size option. Shrinking your page works well only if your printer knows the type of paper you're using. Custom: Select this option to specify your own scaling percentage. You can use any number, though anything over 200% usually makes the Web page look like a large-print book on steroids. These options are also available from the Page Setup window, which you can access by clicking the Page Setup button in the Print Preview window. Some features of the Page Setup window aren't available directly from the Print Preview interface, as I discuss later in this chapter. Changing the orientation of the page Suppose you've just found that 14-column table listing all the stats of your favorite basketball team online, and you want to print it out for your own reference. The problem is every time you try to print the table, the right half of the table gets cut off. You try the Shrink to Fit feature I discuss earlier, but then it's too small to read. What do you do? Sometimes the image you want to print is too wide for a standard 8 1/2-x-11-inch piece of paper, but the image will print fine when you turn that piece of paper on its side. This is reorienting the page. The tall orientation, which is the default, is called Portrait, and the wide orientation is called Landscape. Figures 12-4 and 12-5 illustrate the difference between the Portrait and Landscape orientations. Figure 12-4: In Portrait mode, you see only half of this large auditorium Figure 12-5: but in Landscape mode, both halves of the room are visible. To change the print orientation of a particular page, choose File Print Preview in the main Firefox window to open the Print Preview window, and then choose one of the following orientation buttons in the Print Preview toolbar. Portrait By default, Print Preview shows the page in Portrait mode, meaning the short side of the page (usually 8 1/2 inches) is at the top and bottom. This is how