Sandee

I like detailed tutorials. This site is where I've learned almost everything i know. If I think something might take too much ink, I"ll sometimes write out parts of the directions by hand. Other times I save them to "my pages" or "bookmarks" & just keep going back to look at it as needed.
And I thank every one who has ever made a tutorial & posted it on this site for all of us to use.

Aurora

I usually copy and paste to a Word Document, change to a font I find easy to read and reduce the size of the photos in an effort to reduce the amount of paper/ink used. Some I convert to a pdf. I also print on both sides of the paper to reduce that amount of pages. I also use my laptop when using a tutorial, especially when using a Word Document, I can increase the size of the photos, if necessary.

ragqueen03

i did this last night with the copy paste and it worked okay for me. couldn't get photos with it but it helped. sometimes the photos aren't clear shots

ladyshuffler

I agree here........

mzzzquilts

If your Windows operating system came with a Microsoft XPS Document Saver (click on devices & printers to check if it's installed) you can click "print" then tell it to print on it. It makes a file very similar to a PDF and saves it on your hard drive wherever you tell it to. It doesn't print out a copy, but you do have it saved. Make a folder in your "my documents" called Quilt Tutorials and save them all there. Then if you decide to make it (if you're like me, you save hundreds of things with the intent to make them haha), you can print it out. Meanwhile, you always have it tucked away in your folder to refer back to.

Deb watkins

I have posted several tutorials, and have to admit that I do post every step of the way. I know that some of us are visual learners, and a pic is worth 1000 words! I am a visual person myself, so I post as it is best for me to learn....knowing there are several who are likewise.

Glassquilt

I copy to MS Word and edit. Change the margins to narrow. Click on the photo corner and drag to make smaller. Sometimes I can change the format to two columns to save space.

SueSew

DITTO DITTO DITTO DITTO!!! I have benefited from this board enormously and can only hope one day I know enough to post a tute.

Try printing to PDF, edit the PDF to extract what you need. Try two-sided printing, try B/W printing. I am lately finding myself with computer by my side while I walk through the steps at my machine or cutting table.

Rhonda

I know it is a balancing act. I try to keep my EBooks to a certain size so printing is not horrendous. Tutorials are a bit more lax for me because you don't have to print them off. Save them to a flash drive or other storage device and don't print them off. Then you can put them in and follow along when you need the file.

I have discovered I need to show each and every step and all the tricks and tips. So many pictures are unavoidable.


Also when putting a tutorial on here I don't have any sense of pages because this site doesn't work like a Word document or my Works documents. I don't get any lines to show where pages start and stop.

true4uca

Thank you for this comment. I just knew there had to be a way to print just the tute. I just learned what print preview was for.