Printing a portion of a card

Richard Gaskin ambassador at fourthworld.com
Sun Nov 24 20:10:01 EST 2002


Sarah wrote:

> I have a problem with printing the bottom portion of a card. It prints
> the correct bit of the card but I can't get it to start at the top left
> of the paper, it always prints down the page as if leaving room for the
> non-printed section of the card.
> 
> Here is my setup:
> 
> The card is 723 pixels wide x 560 high.
> The page setup is for A4 paper in landscape mode.
> This gives a printPaperSize of 841,595 (with the default printMargins)
> 
> I want to print the card from 4,157 to 719,554.
> Here is the command I am using:
> print this card from 4,157 to 719,554 into 72,72,697,451
> 
> Surely this should make the printout start 1 inch from the top and 1
> inch from the left of the paper. It looks like it starts 1 inch from
> the left but about 3 inches from the top.
> 
> If anyone has any suggestions I would be most grateful. I use Mac OS X
> 10.2.2, Rev 1.1.1

You may need to adjust the printmargins global property.

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