How do you prefer to deal with long flowcharts?

[SIANNON -at- VISUS -dot- JNJ -dot- com]

Greetings!

While I've already dealt with my specific example of this phenomenon, I'd 
really like to hear how other people addressed the issue, since I can't 
help but feel there's got to be "A Better Way"(tm) to deal with it:

How do you prefer to incorporate long, complex, branching flowcharts in a 
document, when they won't fit on a single page, legibly?  In my example, 
one such flow is describing program logic as part of the detailed design 
document; it spans three portrait-oriented pages vertically, if cut into 
chunks. Design doc output is to the US standard 8 1/2" x 11" (LTR) format, 
with the body of the doc authored in Word. Flowcharts are created in 
Visio.

The "why" behind your "how" can help,...if I haven't faced it yet, I may 
face a circumstance in the future where that "why" becomes a necessary 
consideration.  I'll post a summary next Friday, if there are more than a 
scattered few responses.

Some things I can think of include:
-- Do you just cut them into pieces, cropping the graphic wherever the page 
would break it?  Do you prefer to crop it in Word, or save pieces as 
separate graphics and import them separately?
-- Do you shrink the flow and label sections with callouts that refer to 
cropped sections that fit on a single page each?
-- Do you prefer to label your flows with captions? Where do you stick 
those captions (e.g., before, after, or on each page)?
-- What if the flowchart is wider, as well as taller?  (e.g., would have to 
be broken into 2 pages across by 3 pages down, to still have the text 
legible)
-- Do you try to impose a rule on the Developers to make their flows fit on 
a standard page, using off-page connectors to continue them?  Do you rework 
the flows you receive yourself, to achieve this?
  
Thanks in advance for any input...
Shauna

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