Printing long Discoverer reports(25 columns)

Hi Gurus,
The discoverer reports are columnar reports and long sometimes(having 25 columns). Is there a way to print a discoverer report so that it fits in one page if it does not fit into portrait and landscape page setups?
Thanks,
Pooja

You can apply a scaling factor to your report: I believe you can specify upto a 10% value, which means the report will be shrunk to 10% of its size. This should allow you to print a wide report without having the columns wrap to a second page. Though I am not sure how readable such a report would be. You could alternately choose a wider paper size.
Thanks
Abhinav

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The fact that the report used to work fast and now not can be related to many things but my guess is that the database statistics were changed and so the explain plan has changed.
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