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Re: Print Margins - the way the big boys do it

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Subject: Re: Print Margins - the way the big boys do it
From: Terry Ford <tmford at shaw dot ca>
Date: Fri, 29 Apr 2005 11:29:20 -0700
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On Apr 29, 2005, at 10:30 AM, GAmoore at aol dot com wrote:

I have one question. If RB simply can not know the printer dimensions, so when you say .5 inch margins, the printer ads it own internal .25" margin. If so, then why is it, that every professional application I know of, allows you to specify exact margins? Not only Word 200X, but even my old Wordperfect 3.54 that has not been updated in 8 years and can only be used in Classic Mode can allow perfecttly aligned margins. Do the big boys get access to the driver code
somehow or the OS in some way that we can not?

Nope. Check out the examples in the PrinterSetup Class. Most of the normal data is explained there. Try the last example. It should show the built-in margins returned by the printer itself. This includes user settings if you allow them. There's a lot of stuff in there that, if handled correctly, will let you determine what offsets you require to put the margins exactly where you want them.

The only problem, I think, is determining the orientation.

HTH,

Terry

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