The chart on screen is an infinite canvas: you zoom in, drag around, and
look at one corner at a time. Paper has none of that. Printing the canvas
means scaling 850 people onto one sheet, which yields boxes two
millimetres wide — technically the whole company, practically nothing.
So the print view is rebuilt rather than shrunk, and it does two things
the canvas cannot.
It asks before it prints. Depth (bereiche, abteilungen, teams, or teams
with every name) and which divisions, each one selectable. Whoever needs
Produktion for a meeting gets two sheets instead of forty, and the page
count is on the button before anything reaches the printer.
And it draws the hierarchy as a hierarchy: boxes joined by connecting
lines, not a column of cards. Superior and subordinate are the entire
point of an org chart; a tidy list of the same units simply does not say
it. The lines come from borders on pseudo-elements, so the PDF keeps
them as vectors and they stay sharp when someone zooms in. Header
shading gets weaker with each level down, which survives the black-and-
white printer that most of these end up on.
Overview sheet first, then one sheet per selected division, each
carrying its own heading and headcount so page seven is still readable
on its own. A4 or A3, landscape.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Maximilian Stubhan
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