Print margins

Terence Heaford t.heaford at btinternet.com
Thu Mar 27 10:34:35 EDT 2014


Have a look at printMargins in the Language Dictionary

On 27 Mar 2014, at 12:42, Terry Vogelaar <tvogelaar at de-mare.nl> wrote:

> I want to make software to generate a printed newsletter.
> 
> First I did the page layout in HTML so I could use revBrowserPrint to print it. But to my amazement it didn't fill the whole A4 sheet. The layout was scaled down to 16 cm wide (instead of 21).
> So I did the math and scaled up the entire layout by 132%. I tried again: still 16 cm wide.
> 
> I thought it might be a revBrowserPrint problem, so I printed a stack instead. What was supposed to be the top left corner was printed on a distance of 25,4 mm from the top and from the left of the paper (1 inch). 
> 
> I finally understood the weird scaling. Apparently every print from LC needs a margin of an inch, because 21 cm minus 2 inches is around 16 cm. I hope I'm wrong on this; I hope this can be adjusted and I like to know how.
> 
> In my opinion, this margin is so wide that it looks quite silly. I understand that printers cannot use the outermost edges, but that should be around 4 mm, or 1 cm at most. Not an inch!
> 
> How can I teach LC some sanity here? I would be fine with a margin of 1 cm on each side.
> 
> Kind regards,
> Terry
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