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From: omh@cs.brown.edu (Owen M. Hartnett)
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Subject: Re: Page Rectangles
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Date: 8 Oct 90 04:49:20 GMT
References: <10585@goofy.Apple.COM>
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In article <10585@goofy.Apple.COM> casseres@apple.com (David Casseres) writes:
>In article <6145@ethz.UUCP> czychi@ethz.UUCP (Gary Czychi) writes:
>
>> The reason why I put so much effort in this 'investigation' is very
>> simple.  For the user, it can be very annoying not being able to adjust
>> margins smaller than 0.8" !  When you draw into the page rectangle it
>> is much easier if you can assume that the margins on each side of the
>> paper are more or less equal.
>
>Minimum margins are determined by the printer hardware, and they are 
>indeed essentially equal on the left and right.
>

1) Microsoft products can write to areas which are within the "minimum margins."

Thus, we can infer that the minimum margins give an area which can be imaged
given any possible image configuration, or at least, any *reasonable*
imaging configuration.  (by image configuration, I mean any of a set of all
possible quickdraw or postscript calls that cause imaging only inside said
margins.)  I.E. we will probably never encounter errors given that we confine
our output to said areas.

2) Given a scenario where the programmer has a desired output which will
remain consistent regardless of the actions of the user, (i.e. a form) 
thus the programmer is able to test the output for correctness using the
lowest common denominator of printing power (say, an original LaserWriter
and a LaserWriter SC), are there any other pitfalls said programmer
should be mindful of when he directs output which falls outside of the
minimum margins as depicted by the Print Manager (and/or output device)?

-Owen

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